Meaning of ape-person | Babel Free

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A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.

Examples

“The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.”

“The earliest fossils that can be classified as ape-persons have⟳ been found in South Africa and they date⟳ back about 5.5 million years.”

“In England, Grafton Elliot Smith, who had been involved in the Piltdown affair, convinced The Illustrated London News to publish⟳ an artist’s rendering of Nebraska Man. The picture, which appeared in a two-page spread⟳ and received wide distribution, showed two brutish, naked ape-persons, the male with a club, the female gathering roots. All this from one tooth.”

“It remains a great mystery as to how these slow locomoting ape-persons survived in relatively open⟳ terrestrial environments without the aid of great speed⟳, large canines, large body size, stone tool technology, or other physical adaptations that most mammals possess⟳.”

“The anthropocentrist who values rationality, and sees it as the essence of being a person, would regard Taylor as having wiped out morally significant beings, since both mutants and ape-persons are clearly rational. Hence the act is a great wrong.”

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