Meaning of anthropoid in English
(Definition of anthropoid from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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A filter-passing agent producing interstitial myocarditis in anthropoid apes and small animals.
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This is particularly noteworthy, as it implies selection for deviation from typical rules of brain growth in anthropoids.
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The first anthropoid primate facilities had only just started to develop, and they were all located in southern territories far away from laboratories.
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To understand the overall parameters of retinal organization from which the anthropoid eye derives, however, a much broader comparative base is necessary.
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Unfortunately, the hypothesis rests firmly on a series of assumptions about hominin social organization and behavior and anthropoid behavioral patterns that may not be valid.
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Should the definition of the human species be extended to include anthropoid apes?
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The need for such a model is surely understandable where the learners, anthropoid apes, are highly communicative but lack the evolutionary history, hence genes, for language.
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This is certainly true of some of the anthropoid apes.
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If a licensing system such as is proposed were introduced, clearly there would be no purpose in the speculative capture of anthropoid apes.
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They did not prohibit all these various turns by animals such as chimpanzees and anthropoid apes.
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He is particularly worried about anthropoid apes and monkeys.
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Are chimpanzees and anthropoid apes the only animals which are liable to sudden fits of temper?
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Let me now refer first of all to the case of the chimpanzee and the anthropoid apes.
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They recommended that performances by chimpanzees and anthropoid apes should be prohibited.
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He has referred to the anthropoid ape.
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