Word: anthropoidal
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...diggers struck real honey in 1972. They found a so-called anthropoid coffin-one roughly shaped like a body-containing the bones of a man, a woman and two small children. Next summer, more coffins were unearthed, all decorated with human masks, wigged in the Egyptian manner and topped by Egyptian lotus flowers. Inside were the remains of long-faced, large-skulled people of apparently Egyptian origin. For their voyage to the nether world, they were accompanied by such Egyptian burial adornments as seals and scarabs, solid-gold teardrop earrings, beads of gold and carnelian (reddish quartz), lotus-shaped alabaster...
...pages, brought him to visit the set, and a producer decided to put him before the cameras. As Darwin discovered long ago, man's primitive cousins are endlessly fascinating, and soon just about everyone in the country-or so it seemed -was watching the antics of the mischievous anthropoid. Unfortunately, fame went to Muggs' head, and he began biting the hands that fed him-and any other piece of exposed anatomy. Four-and-a-half years after he leaped onto the set, he retired to "extend his personal horizons," as NBC'S public relations mill delicately phrased...
...sort of monkey with apelike teeth, bouncing through the trees." They could thus emerge as an earlier common ancestor than Aegyptopithecus of both apes and monkeys, and as a link back to such lower primates as lemurs and tarsiers. That might put them very near the start of anthropoid evolution; Ciochon speculates that they may have migrated into Africa via western Asia to evolve into later ancestors of early...
Weighing in at a trim 6½ tons, with a 20-ft. chest and 20-ft. arm span, the $2 million anthropoid is animated by 4,500 ft. of electrical wiring, 3,100 ft. of hydraulic hose and 50 hydraulic jacks that control his movements. The critics may term his acting mechanical, but at least the bionic baboon has seven distinct facial expressions, which is six more than the bionic man can claim. Kong's most embarrassing problem: because of leaky jacks, a steady stream of fluid oozes down his right...
...made out of Adam's rib. Literal acceptance of such Biblical statements is the hallmark of fundamentalism, and south Georgia is a stronghold of it. Last week twelve Episcopal bishops from as far away as Montana launched a "Bishops' Crusade for Christ" in south Georgia, attacking "anthropoid religion," as H. L. Mencken used to call...