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  • Baboons ( 'Cynocephalus', Fig. 16) exaggerate the gross proportions of the muzzle of the great Anthropoid, so that its visage looks mild and human by comparison with theirs.

    On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Baboons ( 'Cynocephalus', Figure 16) exaggerate the gross proportions of the muzzle of the great Anthropoid, so that its visage looks mild and human by comparison with theirs.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • But, if the teeth of the Gorilla be compared with those of an Ape, no further removed from it than a 'Cynocephalus', or Baboon, it will be found that differences and resemblances of the same order are easily observable; but that many of the points in which the Gorilla resembles

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • But, if the teeth of the Gorilla be compared with those of an Ape, no further removed from it than a 'Cynocephalus', or Baboon, it will be found that differences and resemblances of the same order are easily observable; but that many of the points in which the Gorilla resembles

    On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • 'Cynocephalus', and 'Cebus', and the grinding surface of the second molar is shown in each, its anterior and internal angle being just above the 'm' of 'm2'.]

    On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • T.ere have been many other such phony amalgam animals, including in 1898 the "Bovalapus" (actually a water buffalo), the "Bactaranus" (presented on the same bill as the Bonassus, actually a camel), the 1885 "Cynocephalus" (a baboon in lederhosen) and P.T. Banum's 1848 "wooly horse" (in this case, actually a rare breed of horse).

    'Annals of Gullibility: Why We Are Duped and How to Avoid It' 2009

  • Man does; while the Baboons (‘Cynocephalus’, Fig. 16) exaggerate the gross proportions of the muzzle of the great

    Essays 2007

  • Ape, no further removed from it than a ‘Cynocephalus’, or Baboon, it will be found that differences and resemblances of the same order are easily observable; but that many of the points in which the Gorilla resembles Man are those in which it differs from the Baboon; while various respects in which it differs from

    Essays 2007

  • Longitudinal and vertical sections of the skulls of a Beaver (‘Castor Canadensis’), a Lemur (‘L. Catia’), and a Baboon (‘Cynocephalus Papio’),

    Essays 2007

  • Young dates have been planted in pits; some are burnt and others are torn; for the Bedawi, mischievous and destructive as the Cynocephalus, will neither work nor allow others to work.

    The Land of Midian 2003

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