anthropoid
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If rhesus macaques, or macaques in general, did not have beat perception, then surely, I thought, chimpanzees and other anthropoids did.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2019
Known from only one specimen, nicknamed Ida, this species was thought to represent a missing link between early primates and anthropoids, the group of primates that would ultimately give rise to humans.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2016
Human beings, anthropoids, or robots, you could probably find them all, more or less like, that, in downtown Los Angeles today… O dull new world!”
From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2015
No known primate fossils of such antiquity have been found in Africa, which the anthropoids eventually did colonize, evolving into Homo sapiens only about 200,000 years ago.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2013
Although man has lost the greater part of his hairy covering, as Darwin thinks, in consequence of sexual selection, yet the rudimentary hairs upon the body correspond, in many respects, to those of the anthropoids.
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