Notharctidae is an extinct family of primitive primates.

Lemurs are the most primitive primates known and are commonly found in Madagascar.

Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores.

(Right) Another primitive primate, the slow loris, occupies much the same habitat as the tarsier.

I/We do not understand why these odd, primitive primates should be studied at all.

Before the true rodents developed, the primitive primates occupied that niche.

Indeed, there has been a tendency to consider modern tree shrews the most primitive primates rather than the most advanced insectivores.

According to the hypothesis of character change in euarchontan evolution, Purgatorius is a primitive primate.

Humans and monkeys are both descendants of primitive primates that lived 20 million to 30 million years ago.

Strepsirrhines are often inappropriately referred to as "living fossils" or "primitive primates".