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- proper noun obsolete A taxonomic
division within theorder Primates — comprising theapes andmonkeys ; so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly, the Quadruamana were considered an order distinct from theBimana , which last included man alone.
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Huxley, in a lecture delivered by him in the spring of 1860-61, which I had the good fortune to hear, to have proved a fertile source of popular delusion, conveying ideas which the great anatomists Blumenbach and Cuvier never entertained themselves, namely, that in the so-called Quadrumana the extremities of the hind-limbs bear a real resemblance to the human hands, instead of corresponding anatomically with the human feet.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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At first sight, the termination of the hind limb of the Gorilla looks very hand-like, and as it is still more so in many of the lower apes, it is not wonderful that the appellation "Quadrumana," or four-handed creatures, adopted from the older anatomists [5] by Blumenbach, and unfortunately rendered current by Cuvier, should have gained such wide acceptance as a name for the Simian group.
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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At first sight, the termination of the hind limb of the Gorilla looks very hand-like, and as it is still more so in many of the lower apes, it is not wonderful that the appellation "Quadrumana," or four-handed creatures, adopted from the older anatomists* by Blumenbach, and unfortunately rendered current by Cuvier, should have gained such wide acceptance as a name for the Simian group.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Huxley rejects the term "Quadrumana," as leading to serious misconception, and regards Man as one of the families of the
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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On the Posterior lobes of the Cerebrum of the Quadrumana.
Essays 2007
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“Quadrumana,” or four-handed creatures, adopted from the older anatomists41 by
Essays 2007
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The Quadrumana or monkey tribe form one of the most characteristic features of this region.
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Now it is a curious fact, that the existence of such a land has been already thought necessary, to account for the distribution of the curious Quadrumana forming the family of the Lemurs.
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Batchian is remarkable as being the most eastern point on the globe inhabited by any of the Quadrumana.
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Galeopithecus, all the Malayan genera of Quadrumana are represented in India by closely allied species, although, owing to the limited range of most of these animals, so few are absolutely identical.
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