- a variation of anthropomorphic.
anthropomorphous
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Gratiolet, Prof., on the anthropomorphous apes; on the evolution of the anthropomorphous apes; on the difference in the development of the brains of apes and of man.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
This remark is made with respect to Cynocephalus and the anthropomorphous apes by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Histoire Nat. des Mammiferes,' tom. i.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we say that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form?
From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler
Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
So that the correspondence in general structure, in the minute structure of the tissues, in chemical composition and in constitution, between man and the higher animals, especially the anthropomorphous apes, is extremely close.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin