Ape-type Primates are at the top of the mammal hierarchy
By what measure, though? It reminds me of geocentrism when it comes to astronomy, if that is what inspired such nomenclature.
There is no mention of simians in the Bible as any special part of the divine creation either, just grouped under “beast(s)” or “living creatures” of the land; mankind’s creation is explicitly separate, too.
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Olog-hai
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There wasn’t a whole lot of taxonomic classification-—Phyla, Orders, binomial nomenclature and so forth -— in the OT.