Word: semierect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience that man is directly descended from an upright, walking anthropoid. The lowest form of living ape, the gibbon, is the only animal that runs on two feet like man. Other apes hop and leap or go to all fours when on the ground, and are never more than semierect in natural pose. Therefore, he concludes, their present posture has been acquired...
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