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He is a tedious fraud and ignoramus, a cheap rogue and hypocrite, the eternal Jack of the human pack ... indeed no more grasping, selfish, dishonest mammal is known to students of the Anthropoidea.
Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High Simon Jenkins 2011
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In the recent “intuition” neurons article, what ACW is calling Simiiformes and what Vandalhooch had thought was called Anthropoidea an overarching label for the clade that includes all monkeys, apes, and humans is apparently called Haplorrhini.
Is One "King Kong" Movie worth 1000 Darwin Exhibits? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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In the _Anthropoidea_ alone of nonaquatic mammals the olfactory regions undergo an absolute (and not only relative, as in the _Carnivora_ and _Ungulata_) dwindling, which is equally shared by the human brain, in common with those of the other
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Comparative anatomy, with its deeper vision, showed that all differences in bodily structure between man and the Anthropoidea
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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He is a tedious fraud and ignoramus, a cheap rogue and hypocrite, the eternal Jack of the human pack ... indeed no more grasping, selfish, dishonest mammal is known to students of the Anthropoidea.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Simon Jenkins 2011
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The order Primates consists of two major suborders: the Prosimii and the Anthropoidea.
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‘Monkey’ is itself a loose term used for those members of Anthropoidea that aren’t hominoids, and here we’re only interested in the Old World monkeys (cercopithecoids).
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In my textbook, (Primate Adaptation and Evolution by John G. Fleagle the platyrhines and catarhines are both within the suborder Anthropoidea (pg.
Is One "King Kong" Movie worth 1000 Darwin Exhibits? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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So … man is an ape in that if you use “ape” to characterize that group of Anthropoidea that aren’t “monkeys” which are non-lemur, non-ape primates, but don’t form a natural group - i.e., share a common ancestor to the exclusion of apes and lemurs, but man isn’t an ape because apes are chimps and gorillas and.
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In any event, he didn’t like the term “Simian” and preferred “Anthropoidea” to describe a clade inclusive of Old World Monkeys, New World Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids, but exclusive of Tarsiers and Lemurs.
Is One "King Kong" Movie worth 1000 Darwin Exhibits? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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