anthropoid

How To Use anthropoid In A Sentence

• The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• A slightly later anthropoid shell of the 1630s in the same vault displays an alternative technique.
• Part of the posterior rhinal fissure is always present in the 'incisura temporalis,' and sometimes, especially in some of the non-European races, the whole of the posterior rhinal fissure is retained in that typical form which we find in the anthropoid apes. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
• These are rightly seen as probingly sculptural, but one at least is open to a strangely anthropoid, romantic interpretation. Times, Sunday Times
• An anthropoid with blade and scute in place of hands could not crawl very well. A Circus of Hells
• His overview is especially effective, as it clearly presents several hypotheses of anthropoid origins.
• A slightly later anthropoid shell of the 1630s in the same vault displays an alternative technique.
• So we start, in biology, with single celled, then microscopic organisms, then fish, amphibia, with tails, mammals with tails, until we reach the anthropoid stage. A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
• Though he can crawl, and may have clinging to him certain brute instincts that may be the relics of his anthropoidal days, he has also, thank God, divine desires and discontents, and certain rudimentary wings. Without Dogma
• The CGß gene first arose in the common ancestor of the anthropoid primates (New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans), after the anthropoids diverged from tarsiers.