anthropomorphous

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Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we say that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form? 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Butler, Samuel

But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we said that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form? 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

These are of functional importance by supporting certain internal parts and in other ways; and their modification is directly connected with the erect or semi-erect attitude of man and the anthropomorphous apes.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

This remark is made with respect to Cynocephalus and the anthropomorphous apes by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Histoire Nat. des Mammiferes,' tom. i.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles