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anthropoid ape

NOUN
  1. any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae

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  • Part of the posterior rhinal fissure is always present in the 'incisura temporalis,' and sometimes, especially in some of the non-European races, the whole of the posterior rhinal fissure is retained in that typical form which we find in the anthropoid apes. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
  • They are heavy-bodied, thick-necked anthropoid apes, native to the swampy coastal forests of Sumatra and Borneo.
  • But as in other cases among mammals all nearly related forms yield an almost equally marked precipitate, so the serum of a rabbit treated with human blood and then added to the blood of an anthropoid ape gives _almost_ as marked Evolution in Modern Thought
  • The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubes thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • This usually occurs in gibbons and occasionally in other anthropoid apes.
  • It is certain that the anthropoid ape is lustfully excited by the presence of women and I have related how at Cairo (1856) a huge cynocephalus would have raped a girl had it not been bayonetted. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • 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
  • As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains. WN.com - Articles related to Long-distance journeys are out of fashion: Global warming is causing evolutionary changes in bird migration
  • The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubès thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The anthropoid apes in general manifest a reversion from the social toward the solitary state, this condition reaching its ultimate in the orang, which is one of the most solitary of animals. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
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