Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184563-20130421015649/@comment-995426-20160429042754

I suppose it's more accurate to say that all apes and old world monkeys are catarrhines, and all catarrhines and new world monkeys are simians. But does this mean "monkey" is necessarily a polyphyletic term? Or can all simians be considered "monkeys" by virtue of containing both branches of monkeys? This is the same kind of question as whether birds are dinosaurs. XD Genetically, they are. Nomenclaturally, though?