The apostles of Evolution tell us, that in the genealogical ages during which man has struggled upward, from the lower stages of vertebrate and mammal to the genus of Catarrhine apes, he has gradually thrown off bestial instincts, and that the tiger taint will ultimately be totally eliminated; that "original sin is neither more nor less than the brute inheritance which every man carries with him, and that Evolution is an advance toward true salvation."
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson
The platyrrhine and Catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
But this agreeable sight was spoiled at once by the quite horrible words Nycticebidoe, platyrrhine, Catarrhine, from which I raised my eyes to see him coming at me with two pamphlets, and scolding as he came.
"Lady Baltimore"
Owen Wister