anthropomorphous

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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

The ourang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Linked through the ages, one and all, In long anthropomorphous chain, The human and the animal Inseparably must remain.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison

Whether the adult anthropomorphous apes, in the males of whom the canines are much larger than in the females, uncover them when prepared to fight, is not known.

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