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anthropoid::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | anthropoidal, apelike |
anthropoid::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | manlike |
anthropoid::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | primate |
| Derivation | anthropoidal |
Examples of anthropoid
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For decades, scientists thought that anthropoid evolution was rooted in Africa.
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Multi-male groups are the most common, just as they are in most anthropoid primates.
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Beard is renowned for his extensive work on primate evolution and anthropoid origins.
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Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa.
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Eosimias may be the first species on the anthropoid branch of the tree.
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Lemurs generally have thin tooth enamel compared to anthropoid primates.
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And what more natural than to name this new era after that top-of-the-range anthropoid, us?
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Among anthropoid primates there is a close relationship between brain growth and tooth eruption.
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But, until now, the fossil record of anthropoid primates has extended back only 45 million years.
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- Resembling apes
- Person who resembles a nonhuman primate
- Any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
- (Anthropoids) The simians (infraorder Simiiformes) are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, (together being the catarrhines), and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. Simians tend to be larger than the "lower primates" or prosimians.
- An anthropoid animal; having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance; having characteristics of an ape
- Coffins in the shape of a human.
- A member of a primate group made up of the apes. orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, and bonobo), monkeys, and humans.
- Living and fossil anthropoids can be distinguished from prosimians on the basis of a number of shared derived features of the skull and dentition. ...
- Operational code name for the assassination of Heydrich in Prague.
