Meaning of Anthropoid | Babel Free

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An anthropoid animal.

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“The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.”

“Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.”

“Imagine for a moment that mankind, together with the printed and artistic lore of all the ages, were suddenly destroyed. Any new race of anthropoids which might arise would be in precisely the same position as the primitive races of mankind were in the days of Adam and Eve, and little better than the animals of to-day.”

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