anthropoid
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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
One anthropoid branch, the New World monkeys, is found in Central and South America.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
One of the tombs has a burial shaft carved in rock and leads to a chamber where anthropoid lids and four sarcophagi for two women and two men were found.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2017
It is no good at all, but fun, at moments, to watch… Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and many others are cast as apes, with wonderful anthropoid mask covering their faces.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014
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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