Between the pope and the bishops as an intermediate rank we have the primates or patriarchs.
Among the primates of Mainz the most important by far was =Hatto I.
Each of these primates was at the head of a host during a period of mortal conflict.
A certain number of archbishops and primates came next, and after them the cardinals, all likewise with their lighted tapers.
Hence it came to pass that certain episcopal sees retained that high rank granted to their first incumbents, either as primates or metropolitans, after having acted in the beginning in the quality of apostolic legates.
Council of Chalcedon, respecting appeals to primates or to the patriarch of Constantinople, was in a higher sense applicable to the Bishop of Rome.
Not only are these two groups of the Primates absolutely distinct at the present day, but they have been, so far as we know, for a very long time, since no fossil remains of Monkeys at all intermediate have been so far discovered.
This feature shows conclusively that Adapis is a Lemur, and that Nesopithecus, originally supposed to be a Monkey, cannot be removed from the Lemuroidea, many though its likenesses to the higherPrimates undoubtedly are.
A curious contrast between the two divisions of the Primates concerns the digits of the hands and feet.
In January, 1893, he was elevated to the college of cardinals, a dignity never before attained even by the greatest of the long line of one hundred and fourteen primates since St. Patrick that have presided over this see.
Hence there is for a time in the human embryo a normal hyperthelism, and this can only be explained by the descent of man from lower primates (lemurs) with several pairs.
Thus it came about that while the uproar was still growing and fermenting on the quay, the primates met together, and found grave faces.
Even Tombazes, by his remark about the duty of Hydra, showed he was of no reliable stuff, and the primates seemed depressed.
We primates have a good deal of preaching to do, and so we have much sympathy for those who listen.
The clan welcomed the Capsina's new importation with fervor when they heard who it was; and certain of the primates wondered whether she would demand another seat in the assembly.
Tombazes' ill-suppressed delight at this step, which was conveyed to the primates in conclave, put him for the moment within an ace of exposure.
Among the primates there was a faint show of opposition.
Finally--and had the primates known the cause of this, there would have been angry men in Hydra--the command of the entire fleet was given to Tombazes.
A brief notice with regard to the distribution of the Primates must suffice, as their past history is too imperfectly known to admit of generalizations being drawn.
Chevron bones are present in all Primates with well-developed tails.
In Man, the Gorilla, Chimpanzee, and Orang, the carpus articulates only with the radius, in most Primates it articulates also with the ulna.
In most Primates the condyle is considerably widened, but this is not the case in Man.
In the other Primates the internal cuneiform has a saddle-shaped articulating surface for the hallux, which is obliquely directed to the side of the foot and opposable to the other digits.
The hyoid of Primatesis remarkable for the large expanded basi-hyal, which is generally concave above and convex below.
In most Primates the cervical vertebrae are very similar to those of man, but the inferior lamellae of the transverse processes are better developed.
The order Primatesis divisible into two suborders: Suborder (1).
Man differs conspicuously from all the other Primates in being almost naked.
The primates are fruit and nut eaters in whatever part of the world they are found.
All theprimates adhere to the family bill of fare.
The rock record answers the first question: the Primates emerged about the dawn of the Eocene era, when grass was beginning to cover the earth with a garment.
To this order is given the name Primates, and our first and second question must be when and whence the Primates began.
As to the second question: Whence the Primates sprang, the answer must be more conjectural.
But it is a reasonable view that Carnivores and Primatessprang from a common Insectivore stock, the one order diverging towards flesh-eating and hunting on the ground, the other order diverging towards fruit-eating and arboreal habits.
In North America the Primates soon became extinct, and the same thing happened later on in Europe.
The human brain is the same kind of brain that lower primates possess; its structure is unique in no general respect.
Indeed, the name of primates was given to this section by Linnæus himself, because the human body found a place in the array which begins at the lower extreme with the lemurs and the monkeys and ends with man at the other end.
Passing to the true anthropoids, or man-like primates and man himself, the first forms encountered are the little marmosets, which are like the lemurs in some ways, but in other respects they resemble the familiar tailed monkeys.
The reduced vermiform appendix of man, a source of much ill health, is another structure that is a counterpart of a relatively larger and useful part of the digestive tract in the lower primates and other animals.
The details of structure that set these animals apart from all the rest of the primates are too small to deserve comment in the present connection.
Primates are eutheria, or true mammalia possessing a placental attachment of the young within the parent.
To one unacquainted with the facts of vertebrate comparative anatomy, the distinguishing characteristics of the primates seem to be trivial in nature.
The order of primates is subdivided as follows :-- Sub-order 1.
For these reasons a survey of the various members of the order of primates must deal largely with the progressive elaboration of the brain and the entailed effects of this enlargement.
You generals are the elected body, on you the initiative depends; but we primates correspond to the titular power.
Germanos is a good man and true, but these little primates are not all like him.
Also, the meeting of primates and bishops at Tripoli, which usually took place at the beginning of April, was summoned for the beginning of March.
Those spoils were to be devoted to the glory of God, and who but His priests, the primates and bishops, were to be trustees?
No great success has attended these efforts, and when Prince Demetrius left the camp I do not know that the primates found themselves very popular men.
He considered that the presence of the primates in the camp rendered the army powerless, for it was eaten up with intrigue, slander, and incessant accusation, provoking counter-accusation.
There was none of it before theprimates came among us.
Again, the meeting of primates is summoned for early in March.
His followers, the primates and bishops, less wise than he, still stayed on, hoping against hope that the popular favor would set their way.
The phylogeny of the mammals and of the lower vertebrates acquaints us with the long series of the earlier ancestors of the primates which have arisen within this stem since the Silurian age.
The differences of brain structure and psychic faculty which separate man from the anthropoid ape are slighter than the corresponding interval between the anthropoid apes and the lower primates (the earliest simiae and prosimiae).
The youngest and most perfect twig of the branch primates is man, who sprang from a series of manlike apes towards the end of the Tertiary period.
It owes its origin to Archbishop Bancroft, it was largely supplemented by his successor Abbot, and still more largely after a long interval by the book-loving Primates Tenison and Secker.
The attitude of the primates indeed showed that sooner or later such a reformation was inevitable.
The Revolution which flung him aside had completed the work of the great Rebellion in sweeping away for ever the old pretensions of the primates to an autocracy within the Church of England.
One weakness of the primates is the character of their self-consciousness.
The comparatively weak Primates were kept in the trees and forced to develop hand and brain by the fierce and well-armed Carnivora.
Such are the rudiments of onanism, suddenly carried by primates to such a high degree of perfection.
Among primates sexual dimorphism is but little accentuated, especially when the male and female live the same life in the open air and share the same labours.
The interest in these matters is chiefly psychological, and if one can draw no proof of evolution from the chance relations between woman and dog, man and goat, the coupling of primates of different orders offers no evidence either.
Man and woman, as is the case with other primates and the carnivora (for most herbivora are polygamous) represent two sexes made to live united and to share jointly in the cares for their offspring.
The place of these among insects is analogous to that of the primates or even of man among mammifers.
Ameghino in Buenos Ayres has awakened the fossil primates of the Pampas formation to new life; he even believes that in his Tetraprothomo, represented by a femur, he has discovered a direct ancestor of man.
Haeckel himself has modified his genealogical tree of thePrimates in certain details since the publication of his Generelle Morphologie in 1866, but its general basis remains the same.
Man, as he is now born, "differs conspicuously from all the other primates in being almost naked.
Rebellion again broke out, and Kolokotrones was joined by his old antagonists, the Primates of the Morea.
Soon after Hypsilanti's appearance in Moldavia the Turkish governor of the Morea, anticipating a general rebellion of the Greeks, had summoned the Primates of his province to Tripolitza, with the view of seizing them as hostages.
It was this financial experience of the Primates of the Morea which gave to the rebellion of the Greeks what little unity of organisation it exhibited in its earliest stage.
The Primates of the Morea took part with the representatives of the islands and of Central Greece against the disturber of the peace, and an accommodation was soon arranged.
The Primates of the northern district set out, but halted on their way, debating whether they should raise the standard of insurrection or wait for events.
A Zero Gravity Pellet Dispenser for Use With Primates in Long-Term Space Flights.
In this series of tests, all primates were normal following the tests and exhibited no unusual behavior or effects.
On the other extreme are the complex primates which respond rapidly, but whose multiplicity of organs and correlative mechanisms are susceptible to malfunction and disorganization.
In the biosatellite program, primates will be placed in the semirestraint couches in a position facing accelerative forces, ventrodorsal (eyeballs in), to prevent these effects.
Feeding Devices for Use With Primates in Space Flight.
However, when the primates were placed with their backs toward the accelerative force, dorsoventral (eyeballs out), the animals suffered visible damage.
On the other extreme are the complex primates which respond rapidly, but whose multiplicity of organs and correlative mechanisms make the occurrence of malfunction and disorganization probable, but not certain.
A small life sciences group, organized in 1958, was concerned with life support and use of primates for system and vehicle testing for the Mercury program.
Primates were fully instrumented with deep brain electrode implants, implanted catheters, and other implanted sensors.
These primates were semirestrained in form-fitted couches which allowed movement of the body while facing the accelerative force in a ventrodorsal position (eyeballs in).
Many animals hide in thick undergrowth when death approaches them; and, leading an almost entirely arboreal life, the Primates are especially likely to disappear without being fossilized.
The Primatestake an easy first by their hands, and among them the apes and man himself by their brains.
In the order of the Primates they are greater than in many other orders, chiefly because of the arboreal life of our ancestors.
Our choice between these different classifications of Primates is best determined by the important thesis of Huxley, in which, in 1863, he carried out a most careful and critical comparison of all the anatomical gradations within this order.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
