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PRIMATE, eccl. law.. An archbishop who has jurisdiction over one or several other metropolitans.

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To find out how well primates cope with this unpredictability compared with other animals, researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, N.C.

Primates more resilient than other animals to seasonal ups and downs

The ability to breed transgenic primates means doing expensive and difficult genetic engineering only once, then using conventional breeding to make large numbers of the animals.

Primates carry and pass along a foreign gene: marmosets produce glowing protein in all tested tissues

Bishop Andrew Atagotaaluk of the Arctic said the primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, will announce the appointment this month.

Dioceses may soon stop paying into liability fund

Nonhuman primates infected with SIV from the currently recognized lineages can harbor antibodies that serologically cross-react with some HIV-1 or HIV-2 antigens (3).

Divergent HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus surveillance, Zaire

Since that time, the office of primate has steadily grown to encompass a national episcopal ministry, in which the primate serves as a figure of unity and a reflection of the diversity, challenges and ministries of the church.

'A mirror for the life of our church': The history and role of the primacy

Primate Ositelu and a nine-man team paid a courtesy visit to the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osibajo, in Abuja, that same Monday.

Primate Rufus Ositelu, a perfect choice -Justice Sofolahan

An international team of leading primate researchers, including Christian Roos, has analysed and evaluated the situation of many endangered non-human primate species in Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Chimps, other primates on verge of mass extinction

The plesiadapiforms may have been a sort of transition animal, a link between primate ancestors and primates themselves, based on anatomy that is not quite how we understand primates to look.

Bone Fossils Show Primates Evolved In Trees

ABOUT 120 people in Wales have primates as pets - and the RSPCA wants the practice banned.

RSPCS calls for ban on keeping monkeys as pets INWALES

Montgomery presents readers with an examination of primatologyAEs shift from short-term expeditions to demythologize the behavior of primates in their natural habitats to its arrival as a full-fledged scientific field of study.

Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science

Dating of Perupithecus relies on comparisons with primate fossils of known age found elsewhere in South America and the age of the geologic formation from which the fossils were excavated.

Earliest New World monkey unearthed: fossils suggest primates came to South America from Africa