The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anatomically \An`a*tom"ic*al*ly\, adv. In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from anatomical + -ly (2). Anatomically correct, of dolls and meaning "with genitalia," is attested 1968, perhaps 1967, American English, in reference to Petit Frère, an imported French boy doll.
Wiktionary
adv. Pertaining to the anatomy.
WordNet
adv. with respect to anatomy; "anatomically correct"
Usage examples of "anatomically".
It seems permissible, therefore, to consider a possibility neither Tuttle nor Leakey mentionedthat creatures with anatomically modern human bodies to match their anatomically modern human feet existed some 3.
In Part II we also consider the possible coexistence of primitive hominids and anatomically modern humans not only in the distant past but in the present.
Most of them, by nineteenth-century scientists, described incised bones, stone tools, and anatomically modern skeletal remains encountered in unexpectedly old geological contexts.
Most authorities now postulate that both anatomically modern humans and the classic Western European Neanderthals evolved from the pre-Neanderthal or early Homo sapiens types of hominids.
The type of human known as Cro-Magnon appeared in Europe approximately 30,000 years ago, and they were anatomically modern.
Scientists used to say that anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens first appeared around 40,000 years ago, but now many authorities, in light of discoveries in South Africa and elsewhere, say that they appeared 100,000 or more years ago.
However, most paleoanthropologists agree that only anatomically modern humans came to the New World.
What if, for example, fossils of anatomically modern humans turned up in strata older than those in which Dryopithecus were found?
Even if anatomically modern humans were found to have lived a million years ago, 4 million years after the Late Miocene disappearance of Dryopithecus, that would be enough to throw out the current accounts of the origin of humankind.
Henceforth, scientists would not expect to find fossils or artifacts of anatomically modern humans in deposits of equal or greater age.
Before Java man, however, reputable nineteenth-century scientists found a number of examples of anatomically modern human skeletal remains in very ancient strata.
If we accept the skeletal evidence presented in these reports, we must go further and accept the existence of anatomically modern human beings in these remote periods.
Carvings of the kind found on the Deinotherium bone are said to be the work of anatomically modern humans of the last 40,000 years.
As we shall see in Chapter 7, scientists of the nineteenth century made several discoveries of skeletal remains of anatomically modern human beings in strata of Pliocene age.
Far from being subhuman, the cultural level was what we might expect of anatomically modern humans in a simple village setting even today.