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Definition of Ape-man
1. Noun. Hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings.
2. Noun. A person assumed to have been raised by apes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ape-man
Literary usage of Ape-man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics by Horatio Hackett Newman (1921)
"The Java ape-man, Pithecanthropus erectus (Figs. ... Hence not only was the brain
limited in its total size, but this Flc- 6--Sk«" °{ Java ape-man, ..."
2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1910)
"... ape-man " which I then advanced was brilliantly confirmed twenty-four years
afterwards by the famous discovery of the fossil Pithecanthropus credits by ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine (1873)
"... or tailed apt1, then an Anthropoid ape, like the gorilla, then a Pithecanthropus
or an ape-man, till at last the ape-man (a 9 Ib. p. 578. Haeckel, p. ..."
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