What is "anthropoid ape"

Usage examples of "anthropoid ape".

The first fossil evidence of a brain of even vaguely human aspects dates back to eighteen million years to the Miocene Period, when an anthropoid ape which we call Proconsul or Dryo-pithecus appeared.

With a start he sat up to see a huge, anthropoid ape squatting at his side, inspecting him intently.

Philander are the only people in the world who can swear that the little skeleton found in the cabin with those of your father and mother was that of an infant anthropoid ape, and not the offspring of Lord and Lady Greystoke.

It appeared to be an anthropoid ape of large proportions, escaped, perhaps, from some itinerant menagerie.

MONK, from his position of safety within the cavern entrance, called frantically, and when the animal, dazed, did pot respond, Monk leaped out like an anthropoid ape springing from a tree.

Chust theenk- except for that one original beta protein molecule, we should probably today all be merely a kind of goreela or cheempanzee-anyway, an ordinary anthropoid ape.