anthropoid (anthropoid)

and n. [ science of man or of mankind. It includes the study of man's agreement with and divergence from other of the various tribes of men with reference to their origin, animals; of his physical structure and intellectual nature; customs, etc.; and of the general physical and mental development of the human race. Anthropology thus in cludes physiology, psychology, sociology, ethnology, etc., putting under contribution all sciences which have man for their object. By some it has been divided into - ( a ) zoological anthropology, which investigates man's relations to the brute creation; ( b ) descriptive anthropology, or ethnol ogy, which describes the divisions and groups of mankind; (c) general anthropology, or, as M. Broca calls it, "the biol ogy of the human race.' theology, anthropology deals with questions relating to the origin, nature, original condition, and fall of man, and especially to doctrines of sin and free agency. As a department of systematic logical sense: applied to all monkeys as well as to man, as distinguished from the lemuroid or prosimian Primates.-2. More specifically, resembling man, or man-like, as one of the higher monkeys or apes, as distinguished from lower monkeys: applied to the apes of the family Simiida, as restricted to include only the go rill a, chimpanzee, orang, and gibbon, these being commonly known as the anthropoid apes. The gorilla is now generally regarded as the most human of the anthropoid apes. H. A. Nicholson . II. n. An anthropoid animal; one of the higher monkeys; an ape. Chronologically this (called by French archæologists the Epoch of Robenhausen] is regarded as the first epoch of the appearance of man on the globe, the previous implement-using animals being probably anthropoids . Science , IV. 438. anthropoidal (an-thrō-poi'dal), a. Of anthroor N. E. pod naturstructure de-a), D. pl. [NL.: see anthropoid.] In zoöl., one of two sub orders, the other being Lemuroidea, into which the order Primates has been divided. The group ontains their dikharacterstinguishem with its posterior lobe much developed and wholly or mostly covering the cerebellum; a lacrymal foramen within the orbit; an orbit completed by suture of the malar and ali sphenoid bones; ears rounded, with a distinct lobule; and, in the female, strictly pectoral teats, undivided uterus, man from and an imperforate clitoris. Also written Anthropida. An thro poi des (an-thrō-poi'dēz), n. [NL., the Stanley crane ( Tetrapteryx ) paradise us or stanley the genus Balearica (which see). The synonyms of An thropoides proper are: Otus (Barrère, 1745), Scops (Mochring, 1752), Bibia (Leach, about 1818), and Phil or chem on (Gloger, 1842). sometimes of 2. [Used as a plural.] In zoöl., a name given by Haeckel to the anthropoid apes: synonymous with Anthropoidea. thro pom orphism (which see). anthropomancy (an'thro-po-man"si), n. [F. anthropomancie, inspecting the entrails of a human being. anthropometer (an-thro-pom'e-ter), n. [ As he stands before us now, man is an animal... exhibiting in his adult form those characteristics which engage the attention of the anatomist, the physiologist, and the anthropometer . Smithsonian Rep ., 1881, p. 499.