Relating to or resembling apes and monkeys, or having characteristics similar to primates.
From Latin 'simia' meaning 'ape,' which may derive from Sanskrit 'kapi' also meaning monkey. The word entered English in the 17th century as scientific taxonomy developed.
While we often think of simians as completely different from humans, scientists discovered that we share about 98-99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos—we're basically simians ourselves!
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