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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a genus of cranes, of the family Gruidæ, based by Vieillot in 1816 upon the Numidian crane or demoiselle, A. virgo.
- noun [Used as a plural.] In zoology, a name given by Haeckel to the anthropoid apes: synonymous with Anthropoidea.
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(nose-apes and slender-apes, or semnopithecus); on the twentieth, the man-like apes (anthropoides) or tail-less catarrhini (gorilla, chimpanzee, orang outang and gibbon).
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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Nevertheless, M. Alix, in his 'Notice sur les travaux anthropologiques de Gratiolet' ( 'M.m. de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris,' 1868, page 32), writes thus: "Gratiolet a eu entre les mains le cerveau d'un foetus de Gibbon, singe eminemment superieur, et tellement rapproche de l'orang, que des naturalistes tres-competents l'ont range parmi les anthropoides.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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