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From the late 19th century on, anomal ous primates like the Yeti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot nudged aside the wolfmen of old and stepped forward to occupy the niche of this fearsome man-like monster.

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He laid it, for a moment, on the surface of the counter, and when it was raised a small toy rested on the wood, a little man-like doll with a key at its back.

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He then went on to quote the leading 20th-century evolutionist Theodosius Dobzhansky, writing in a textbook with other major evolutionists: "Granting that the possibility of obtaining a man-like creature is vanishingly small even given an astronomical number of attempts ... there is still some small possibility that another intelligent species has arisen, one that is capable of achieving a technological civilization."

Michael Ruse: Evolution And Christianity: Did We Arrive By Chance? Michael Ruse 2011

He then went on to quote the leading 20th-century evolutionist Theodosius Dobzhansky, writing in a textbook with other major evolutionists: "Granting that the possibility of obtaining a man-like creature is vanishingly small even given an astronomical number of attempts ... there is still some small possibility that another intelligent species has arisen, one that is capable of achieving a technological civilization."

Michael Ruse: Evolution And Christianity: Did We Arrive By Chance? Michael Ruse 2011

We were already too far removed from the lower life-forms to have the instinct for swimming, and we had not yet become sufficiently man-like to undertake it as the working out of a problem.

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The little man-like creature caught scurrying out of a cornfield in the flash of a car's headlights; the imaginary friend who turned out to be the ghost of a dead twin the narrator never knew he had … All so strange they have to be true.

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However, they may have kept their man-like physiology but they've lost much of the intelligence.

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Perhaps it was to make the wolf appear more man-like ... in this case removing the ears, forming them to a more rounded shape and sewing them back on the side of the head probably would have been more effective.

Putting the Wolf on Trial 2008

Remember, this monster was only man-like -- a far cry from the real thing.

Is Dr. Fox-enstein - Roger Ailes - Building Another Monster? 2010

Remember, this monster was only man-like -- a far cry from the real thing.

Karl Frisch: Is Dr. Fox-enstein - Roger Ailes - Building Another Monster? 2010