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OWM
(redirected from Old World monkeys)

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OWMOracle Wallet Manager
OWMOld World Monkeys
OWMOffice of War Mobilization
OWMOptical Wavelength Manager (Lightchip)
OWMOberwachtmeister (German: a military rank)
OWMOffice of Weights & Measures
OWMOne World Monopolists
OWMOne World Montessori (San Jose and Santa Clara,CA)
OWMOkinawa World Mercenaries (PC multigaming community)
OWMOneway Ministries
OWMOutwit Mashup (file extension)


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He then reasoned that humans diverged from the Catarhine stock comprising of humans, anthropoid apes, and Old World monkeys, all having nostrils opening downward and close together and a nonprehensile, often greatly reduced or vestigial tail.
Simian T-cell lymphotropic viruses, enzootic in both Asian and African Old World monkeys and apes, may have repeatedly crossed the species barrier (7,8).
An ancestor of the howler monkeys had apparently matched the gene duplication that Old World monkeys experienced, yet the evolutionary force preserving the new opsin doesn't appear to have been an advantage in gathering fruit.
 
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