Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of anthropoid apes, of the family Simiidæ and subfamily Simiinæ, containing only the chimpanzee: proposed by De Blainville as a substitute for Troglodytes (Geoffroy), preoccupied in ornithology. Both these names are antedated by Mimetes (Leach, 1819).
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I shall not enter in this place upon a discussion as to the existence of an anthropopithecus or Tertiary man, whom every one does not as yet accept, but will confine myself to giving the facts as to the use of fire in the remotest epochs, incontestable proofs of which exist from the time at which Quaternary man made his appearance.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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Mr. De Mortillet supposes that this being was an animal intermediate between man and the monkey, which he calls the _anthropopithecus_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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