Word: anthropoidal
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...learned community's Victorian moguls, is a monkey house. No uncouth student ever annoys the beasts for they are the wards of Robert Mearns Yerkes. He, who made a Harvard reputation studying the behavior of the dancing mouse,* has for the past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor...
...outside page is hopefully encouraging. I had about concluded that your art editor was a hopeless, bilious pessimist, for however passable the originals of his selections may have looked in the flesh, when the lineaments were transferred to the cover they generally resembled a gnome, gargoyle or anthropoid...
...have long theorized over the hybridization of Hominidae and their cognate Catarrhini (turned-down noses) the Simiidae. Such cross-breeding would be a test of evolution. If children resulted, that would show that the two anthropoid groups were nearer each other than evolutionists at present believe...
...origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
...great strides made since Darwin's day Sir Arthur was more specific. And he ended by asking: "Was Darwin right when he said that man under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place among the anthropoid apes to that which he now occupies ? The answer is Yes! and in returning this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before...