anthropoid

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Hitherto, no specimen of anthropoid primates had been discovered in America.”

From Scientific American

The pages that follow describe how the infant son of the dead Lord and Lady Greystoke is reared by an anthropoid ape named Kala and learns to survive and flourish in the African jungle.

From Washington Post

But what about the other half of the primate family tree - the haplorines, or tarsiers and the anthropoid primates that include us in their membership?

From Scientific American

It unfolds chronologically up the Guggenheim’s quarter-mile spiral, and his frail anthropoids have generous breathing room in the museum’s bays.

From New York Times

The archaeologists will look for any remnants or outline of a specially shaped “anthropoid” coffin that would have been accorded an aristocrat.

From Washington Post