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 >

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