On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, tijlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the taxonomical definition of lo smani? Is it: > > 1) Primate (an order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate) > > or > > 2) Ape/Hominoidea (a superfamily of Primate: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominoids) > > or > > 3) Great Ape/Hominidae (a family of Hominoidea: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape) > > or something else? > > According to the gimste, "ape" is included. But I'm not too sure > whether it's the ape in the sense of (2). The largest category in the definition is the infraorder simian < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian >. So I'd argue it's invalid to assume it's more restrictive than that. It has been proposed that {smani} be used for the order primates < http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=mabru+klejutsi&bl=y > mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
