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Humans And Primates Similarities
This essay will mainly focus about the similarities and differences of our species with Primates. Primates have been considered as our closest relative of our species many other's believe that primates are very much like humans while some disagree with this point saying that the primates are nothing compared to us because we have evolved and intelligently smarter. In my opinion that Humans and Primates share similarities that can define them as our closest relative of our own species but also differences in our physical biology we share certain similarities and differences in Social interactions, Emotional expressions, and Intelligence.

Like Humans Primates socially interacts with other primates they have social relationships such as family

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