Traditionally speaking the term "ape" refers to non human members of the superfamily Hominoidea. Of course, more recently hominoida has been thought to include humans, as Benton did back in 2005. Previously, the group known as apes was divided into two further subgroups, those being the great apes(often capitalized quite ostentaciously, if I do say so...) and the lesser apes. Now if one were to impart the inclusion of humans, as was done within the more formal nomenclature of Hominoidea, that would implcitly classify good ole Frank as a Great Ape(please note and forgive the ostentacious use of such capitalization whimsy)

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