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Southeast Asia’s Endangered Primates

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Asean Post

Publication Date
2020-12-14

There are more than 400 species of primates across the world, and at least 98 species recognised in Southeast Asia. Living primates include humans, monkeys, lemurs and apes. As primates are related, they are genetically similar. Human DNA, is on average, 96 percent identical to the DNA of our most distant primate relatives, and nearly 99 percent identical to our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, according to the American Museum of Natural History.

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