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Not except in the same sense that modern humans are monkeys.

The phrase "cavemen" doesn't really have a precise biological definition, but it's usually used to mean "primitive humans". Sometimes it's stretched a bit, and might be used to refer to any species in the genus Homo, or possibly even genus Australopithecus, but none of these would be classified by biologists as "monkeys".

In fact, they're more closely related to us than gorillas are, and even gorillas aren't monkeys... they're apes (humans are, biologically speaking, part of the same family as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans... the hominidae, or "great apes")

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