anthropomorphous

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The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles

Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Therefore weeping probably came on rather late in the line of our descent; and this conclusion agrees with the fact that our nearest allies, the anthropomorphous apes, do not weep.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles

Here man may have remained for a period, peculiar to a single island, just as some of the large anthropomorphous species are now limited to one island within the tropics.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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 Darwin, Charles