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anthropoid

[an-thruh-poid] / ˈæn θrəˌpɔɪd /


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Novelist Samuel Butler’s 1872 science-fiction classic Erewhon, for instance, features concerns about robotic superhuman intelligences that enslave their anthropoid architects, rendering them “affectionate machine-tickling aphids”.

From Nature ● Oct. 1, 2019

The other anthropoid branch includes the Old World monkeys and great apes and evolved from Africa and Asia.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018

Dr. Gingerich agreed, however, that the new skeleton was close to the divergence between the anthropoid and tarsier branches of primates.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013

“Doubtless there are geniuses even among the anthropoid apes,” Yerkes observed.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2012

The aids virus may well have jumped into the human race from African primates, from monkeys and anthropoid apes.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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