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non-human primates are studied for several reasons. They are studied simply to improve our understanding of the world and all that is in it. they are also studied to help up better understand where we (humans) may have come from and thus why we do much of what we do and what our motivations are.

FYI-answering a question such as this is very difficult to do as you are asking essentially for the motivation of all researchers, and I assure you that each of them has a different set of questions and motivations that drive their research.

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