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means Primatology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of primates — monkeys, apes, lemurs, and ourselves — their behavior, biology, and evolution.

from Built from the Latin 'primas,' meaning 'of the first rank' (the same root behind 'prime' and 'primate'), joined to the Greek '-logia,' 'the study of.' The 'primate' label was famously bestowed by Linnaeus in his 18th-century classification, ranking these creatures at the top of the animal order — a flattering self-assessment, since he placed humans among them. 'Primatology' as the name of the discipline is a much later, 20th-century coinage, gaining real currency as fieldworkers began watching apes in the wild rather than in cages.