anthropoids

In the past, primates without a grooming claw were classified as anthropoids, along with humans, monkeys and apes.

NYT > Home Page By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2012

Instead, I asked what Fleagle and Beard thought about the actual argument in the paper, which has to do with where humans, apes, and monkeys (known as anthropoids) fit in the primate family tree.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

PLoS One, Darwinius belonged to a group of extinct lemur-like primates known as anthropoids, the primate group to which monkeys and apes (including us) belong.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes - known as anthropoids - evolved from primates in

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Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes - known as anthropoids - evolved from primates in

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I love the fact that these androids (the term should really be anthropoids) look like us but have alien motivations and behaviors, forcing us to contemplate the outcomes of a biological or technological speciation event.

MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010

On the one hand, he is ostensibly assisting in a high-tech experiment in which human subjects, laid out in sarcophagus-like pods loaded with wires that monitor their brain waves, remotely operate laboratory-grown "avatars" of the indigenous anthropoids, nine-foot-tall, cyan-colored, nature-loving forest-dwellers called Na'vi.

'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz' 2010

Several of the Old World epidemic diseases transferred to the Americas were spread by anthropoids such as lice, fleas, and mosquitoes.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In this way they really are an atavistic throw-back, developmentally and culturally speaking, to the primitive tribal state of early anthropoids.

Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion 2010

On the one hand, he is ostensibly assisting in a high-tech experiment in which human subjects, laid out in sarcophagus-like pods loaded with wires that monitor their brain waves, remotely operate laboratory-grown "avatars" of the indigenous anthropoids, nine-foot-tall, cyan-colored, nature-loving forest-dwellers called Na'vi.

'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz' 2010