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anthropoid

[an-thruh-poid] / ˈæn θrəˌpɔɪd /


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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

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

Dr. Gingerich agreed, however, that the new skeleton was close to the divergence between the anthropoid and tarsier branches of primates.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2013

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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