Meaning of pithecomorphism | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Some are dissatisfied, call⟳ it anthropomorphism, when we venture to compare⟳ man with God. After all, men are not apes or ape-like, pithecomorphism is but an insensate dream⟳. Without or doubt⟳ or question⟳, man, I affirm, assert, and declare⟳, is not an ape or ape-like.”

“Indeed, Leroi-Gourhan's objective, as I have⟳ said, was not to find⟳ hypothetical transitions between pithecomorphism and anthropomorphism but to spot an evolutive divergence towards a totally original way of being, that of man.”

“[…] Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had already “refuted,” in 1817 and again in 1824, a black origin for the Egyptian civilization, […]. They evoked the “pithecomorphism,” or resemblance to apes, of the “black race⟳,” and said moreover that the skulls of Egyptian mummies were similar to those of Europeans.”

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