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How to use anthropoid in a sentence

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This fairly sturdy oversized paperback is printed in blue, with uninspiring cartoons of a cross-eyed kid in a beanie and his anthropoid dog.
But fundamental questions remain to be answered about anthropoid origins in Asia and Africa.
His overview is especially effective, as it clearly presents several hypotheses of anthropoid origins.
Again, the capuchin monkey cannot be unequivocally assigned to either the typical anthropoid or nonprimate pattern.
In 1917, he conducted experiments on anthropoid apes on the Island of Tenerife.
They are heavy-bodied, thick-necked anthropoid apes, native to the swampy coastal forests of Sumatra and Borneo.
The stage is dominated throughout by huge anthropoid figures, I should think over 30 feet tall.
We examined these effects on the recovery of divergence dates within anthropoid primates and between two murine rodents, the mouse and the rat.
One is its strikingly anthropoid heel bone, which Dr Ni alludes to in the specimen's name.
However, in the anthropoid primates, which include the monkeys and apes, eliminating sexual motivation does not eliminate the capacity for sexual arousal and mating.
This usually occurs in gibbons and occasionally in other anthropoid apes.
His idea is that the human brain is the anthropoid equivalent of the peacock's tail.
It shows the relationship between the neocortex ratio of anthropoid primates and social group size.
Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
After several more years of arduous fieldwork, the team has collected just four molars of this primitive anthropoid, which they named Afrasia djijidae.
Investigations of animal behaviour, from unicellular organisms to anthropoid apes, reveal wide individual differences in learning, motivation, emotionality, and other traits.
From a theoretical point of view it provides a way to study the mental similarities and differences between chimpanzees and humans: what, in other words, is core anthropoid behaviour, and what is species-specific.
Although the basic form of the human body was established in man's anthropoid ancestors, evolutionary adaptations to different environments are apparent among various human populations.
I ask you, though, to imagine for one brief moment that we are dealing with a different type of research, for example, research involving cruelty to animals, specifically primates or anthropoid apes.
The zoological specialities of the Zoo Zurich include its elephant breeding group, the anthropoid apes, the animals of South America and the Himalayan region.
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Numerous anthropoid species such as baboons, patas monkeys, langurs, vervets, geladas, etc.
A major focus of recent paleoanthropological research has been to establish the origin of anthropoid primates from earlier and more primitive primates known as prosimians.
On 4 June 1942 Heydrich died after being wounded by an assassin in Operation Anthropoid.

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The primordial anthropoid was probably, in this respect, on much the same footing as his pithecoid kin.
The crura in other monkeys do not diverge so much as in man and anthropoid apes.
To his horror, he saw the man stoop until his closed knuckles rested upon the ground as did those of the anthropoid.
In the anthropoid ape we already find the family, but not the clan.
In the Monkeys and anthropoid Apes this cartilage is circular.
The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
With a start he sat up to see a huge, anthropoid ape squatting at his side, inspecting him intently.
A white foam dripped from the chattering lips of the anthropoid.
Bentley rose and looked down at the anthropoid for several seconds.
From these last, anthropoid apes and man have, he believes, been evolved.
Do you know how the muscles are in this part in the anthropoid apes?
The captain interposed no obstacles to the arrangement, and so the great anthropoid was tacitly admitted to membership in the ship's company.
That you and I exist today must be due to the preparedness of some shaggy anthropoid of the Oligocene.
With an explosive bellow the anthropoid reeled backward and tumbled from the tree.
Tarzan feared that the anthropoid would awaken the sleepers.
It was a surprised anthropoid that attempted to scramble to its feet.
He was still but a boy, yet so great was his strength that the powerful anthropoid with which he often engaged in mimic battle was no match for him.
The wearing of the Arab burnoose which Tarzan had placed upon his person had aroused in the mind of the anthropoid a desire for similar mimicry of the Tarmangani.
As Tarzan drew nearer he called aloud to the ape and the girl heard from the human lips the same sounds that had fallen from those of the anthropoid.
I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.

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