anthropoid
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To those I will add a few superlatives that were not celebrated at my own high school: most melancholic, most quizzical, most skilled at vibrating the deepest strings of the anthropoid heart.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
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
The other anthropoid branch includes the Old World monkeys and great apes and evolved from Africa and Asia.
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
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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