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Kong does have many gorillalike attributes as well, including long muscular arms, a short snout with large canine teeth, and a tall sagittal crest – a ridge of bone on his head that would be the anchor point for some exceptionally strong jaw muscles.

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By the early 1900s, scientists were describing Neanderthals as gorillalike beasts, an extinct branch of humanity that could not compete with slender, brilliant humans.

Every view screen had at least two gorillalike bodyguards watching it.

“The position or orientation of the shoulder joint was very gorillalike,” said Zeresenay Alemseged, a paleoanthropologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and one of the study’s authors.

Nor had they taken from him the gorillalike strength that was in his broad squat body, the magnificent brute lustihood that made him a terror to police and citizen alike.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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