He, too, saw the savage faces of the approachinganthropoids and scarcely knew whether to be relieved or terror-stricken.
It was not always an easy thing to maintain in the vacillating minds of the anthropoids a sustained interest in their venture.
The anthropoids represent very probably the culmination of at least three distinct lines of development.
Thus among the anthropoids the orang is perhaps most similar to man in cerebral structure, the chimpanzee in form of skull, the gorilla in feet and hands.
Whether the palæontologist will find for us remains of such anthropoids is still to be seen.
But here and elsewhere, so numerous are the abnormalities, that "the gap which usually separates the muscular system of Man from that of the Anthropoids appears to be completely bridged over.
Undoubtedly the most interesting of fossilAnthropoids is the now famous Pithecanthropus erectus.
None of the Anthropoids has a tail, or cheek pouches.
In the skull the chief noteworthy character as {571} compared with other Anthropoidsis the fact of the large size of the canines, which are of equal or nearly equal size in the two sexes.
It has at any rate been stated that the twoAnthropoids do go about in company; but there seems to be little doubt that there is no question here of a hybrid.
It is most unlikely that a cousin of the frugivorous anthropoids should entirely give up his ancestral food, immediately, or perhaps at any time.
Conditions of reproduction need not here be considered, as the apparatus is the same in the anthropoids and in ourselves.
The anthropoids are never found out of the tropical forests of Africa and Malaya (including Borneo and Sumatra).
Perhaps, then, this difference of Man from the anthropoids may be referred to one common cause with all the othersaEuro"the hunting life.
Moreover, if the great anthropoids and our own ancestors were descended from some stock of the lower monkeys, such as always go in troops, the gregarious instinct may have remained with them as a latent character.
Euro The skull capacity of the great anthropoidsaverages 500 c.
Chapter XIX The Call of the Primitive From the time Tarzan left the tribe of great anthropoids in which he had been raised, it was torn by continual strife and discord.
In the center of the amphitheater was one of those strange earthen drums which the anthropoids build for the queer rites the sounds of which men have heard in the fastnesses of the jungle, but which none has ever witnessed.
The duties of kingship among theanthropoids are not many or arduous.
Moreover, we know that existing anthropoids are the degenerate and scattered remnants of what was once a much more widely spread and more important group.
We have some reason for believing the contrary, and no reason for believing that the surviving anthropoids represent the most man-like apes that have lived.
At the same time, comparative physiology shows that it was a more or less useful implement in the latter, but it is quite useless in the anthropoids and man.
In the common catarrhine ancestors of the anthropoids and man the degeneration set in with the folding together of the pinna.
Morphologically, however, it is of great interest as an irrefragable proof of the descent of man and the anthropoids from long-tailed apes.
Hanuman, too, is not forgotten, the great Monkey King who aided Kama in his expedition to Ceylon; outside the city proper is the monkey temple, where thousands of the sacred anthropoids do congregate and consider themselves at home.
About the streets, shops, and houses these mischievous anthropoids are seen in droves, moving hither and thither at their own sweet will, as much at home as the human occupants and owners of the houses themselves.
It is striking that the anthropoids resemble man rather than the lower monkeys in the relation of the foetus to the foetal membranes.
More advanced stages exhibit greater differentiation, and the later embryos of man resemble those of anthropoids much more closely than those of the lower monkeys.
The resemblance between the nearly mature foetus ofanthropoids and human embryos of about the sixth month is evident enough.
The true monkeys, or Cebidæ, are more interesting, and at the same time they are much more familiar to every one, as they are the commonest anthropoids of the menagerie and circus.
These anthropoids are much more intelligent than the lower forms, which is a correlate of their larger and more convoluted brains.
But trustworthy evidence as to the manners and customs of adult anthropoids of this species, in their native woods, was almost wanting up to the time of the publication of the paper by Dr.
The trouble was that the products of their industry unfortunately appealed so strongly to the appetite of the anthropoids that, to gratify it, the brutes were willing to swim a channel a mile wide.
In this age appeared such Anthropoids as Pliopithecus and the highly-developed Dryopithecus (p.
The following appendix has, therefore, been added to include the latest additions to our knowledge of the Anthropoids dealt with in its pages.
These root words were so similar to those in use among the great anthropoids as to suggest that the language of the Manus was the mother tongue.
So the boy smiled and donned the finery of the vanquished, and went his way with Akut, searching, always searching for the elusive anthropoids who were to welcome them with open arms.
For the first time he now realized clearly the terrible peril that lay in these two Anthropoidsalready inside the limits of the colony.
Already he saw the Anthropoidswere within a hundred feet of the abutment.
If wolves oranthropoids can learn, they ought to learn from him!
The mass of Anthropoids inevitably found themselves trapped; their slouching, awkward figures could here or there be seen in some clear space, running wildly.
Already a few of the Anthropoids were beginning to scramble down the opposite wall of stone.
The two Anthropoids were not buried, however, but were thrown into the river from the place where they had been shot down while rolling rocks over the edge.
Teeka still was fearful, for with all their mighty ferocity the great anthropoids are timid; but at last, assured by her great confidence in Tarzan, she pushed Gazan forward toward the little black boy.
The anthropoids were idling about the clearing, the first keen desire of the morning's hunger having been satisfied.
So he urged the great anthropoids on until Numa was showered with missiles that kept his head dodging and his voice pealing forth its savage protest; but still he clung desperately to his kill.
Occasionally she cast suspicious glances in the direction of the huge shaggy anthropoids about her.
Beside him walked Zu-tag, the great ape, and behind them strung the surviving anthropoids followed by Fraulein Bertha Kircher and Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick, the latter a thoroughly astonished and mystified Englishman.
In the skull, as in other parts of the anatomy of the Neanderthals, we should not expect to find every character intermediate between the anthropoids and recent man.
Pithecanthropus erectus is the transition form between man and the anthropoids which the laws of evolution teach us must have existed.
Of all anthropoidsthis jaw most nearly resembles that of the Piltdown man.
These animals are, however, rarely found in fossil form, owing to their retreat to the trees in times of flood and danger, so that we need not necessarily assume that the anthropoids had actually become extinct in France.
That is why anthropoids are strong and agile tree-climbers.
But he remembered the anthropoids out there, and Barter's peculiar domination of the brutes.
What thoughts crowded her brain as she realized that she was in the center of a group of anthropoids who could have destroyed her with their fingers in a matter of seconds!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthropoids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
