anthropoid

How To Use anthropoid In A Sentence

• The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• She says that our head has a very homely and bourgeois bullet shape, a sort of pithecanthropoid contour, which is revealed by a close trim. Mince Pie
• It had the double cephalization ratio of brain size to body size of the anthropoid apes in general and half that of man . . . THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• The stage is dominated throughout by huge anthropoid figures, I should think over 30 feet tall.
• Were there for humans as there is for dogs a tribunal to determine excellence; were there judges of anthropoidal points and juries to, give prizes for manly race, vigour, and the rest, undoubtedly these two men would have gained the gold and the pewter medals. Hills and the Sea
• We examined these effects on the recovery of divergence dates within anthropoid primates and between two murine rodents, the mouse and the rat.
• The authors of the paper describing Darwinius classified it as a member of the primate family Notharctidae, subfamily Cercamoniinae, suggesting that it has the status of a significant transitional form (a "link") between the prosimian and simian ("anthropoid") primate lineages. Archive 2009-06-01
• But fundamental questions remain to be answered about anthropoid origins in Asia and Africa.
• The region is an Endemic Bird Area with, on the coast, jackass penguin Spheniscus demersens, blue crane Anthropoides paradiseus, Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres, black eagle Aquila verreauxii, martial eagle Polemaetus bellicosus, fish eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, black harrier Circus maurus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni. Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa
• Primates, particularly anthropoids, are noted for their considerable cerebral complexity.