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  • noun Plural form of apeman.

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Examples

  • Between two million and one million years ago there were four known coeval "apemen," including three that probably used tools.

    Darwin's Revolution Lewontin, Richard C. 1983

  • Working with Sang-Hee Lee of the University of California, Caspari studied collections of fossils from different periods of human evolution, including early australopithecine apemen, Neanderthals and the first Homo sapiens to reach Europe.

    Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival 2011

  • Thus dinosaurs, apemen, aliens and men from the Civil War are tossed together like a mixed salad.

    Coming soon to the big screen: Land of the Lost! frankwu 2009

  • It is common to view Neanderthals as ignorant apemen.

    Neanderthals: a bit of rough | Observer editorial 2011

  • These apemen didn't just pick up stones and use them to hammer or pound prey or plants, said Shipman.

    Love of animals led to language and man's domination of Earth 2011

  • Pit involves the discovery we're descended from apemen genetically altered by another civilisation on the verge of destruction so that we, the apemen's descendants, carry parts of their gene-code within us.

    Tube Bits For 05/08/2009 2009

  • The chapters that follow were our first straightforward attempt to show how apemen might be trained, with patience, to improve their way of life.

    Tin 2010

  • And isn´t it strange that some of us humans proudly aware of our descent from those ugly apemen that once in a time roamed the african savannah appear to have more morals and decency than the heavenly pascha that our superorthodox Calvinist venerates with such fervour.

    Evolution and Liberal Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

  • Fossil evidence for alleged apemen, Technical Journal 191:22-42, 2005.

    Telling apes from humans - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Originally a TV show by Sid and Marty Croft (of H. R. Puffenstuff and The Donny & Marie Show fame) in 1974, a family of three is stranded in time in a world of dinosaurs, apemen and sleestaks (froggy bad guys).

    The Land of the Lost...again Dark Worlds Club 2009

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