anthropoid

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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

One anthropoid branch, the New World monkeys, is found in Central and South America.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

It is no good at all, but fun, at moments, to watch… Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and many others are cast as apes, with wonderful anthropoid mask covering their faces.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014

“Doubtless there are geniuses even among the anthropoid apes,” Yerkes observed.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2012

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