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Definition of Anthropoids
1. anthropoid [n] - See also: anthropoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropoids
Literary usage of Anthropoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"409, 410), and the primitive anthropoids may have followed the same path. On the
other hand the Indian primates about to be described may have been derived ..."
2. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"If this was the case, the family may have been an inheritance from the parent
species out of which the anthropoids and the ..."
3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"C. DARWINISM AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN: THE anthropoids AND THEIR ANCESTRY.
The public has been notified by more than one eminent modern Geologist and man of ..."
4. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... true Home of the Lemurs and of the anthropoids—Characters of the pliocene
precursor and of the pleistocene sub-groups persistent in the Afro-Austral ..."
5. Anthropoid Apes by Robert Hartmann (1885)
"ON VARIETIES IN THE FORM OF anthropoids. UP to recent times it was generally
supposed that there was only one species of gorilla, and the differences in the ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"The evident implication is that the extant anthropoids, orang, gibbon, ...
While our knowledge of the anthropoids is not as complete as we might wish, ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"The other distinctive characteristics of man and the anthropoids are secondary,
but lead to the same conclusions. Hence the two groups should be separated ..."
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