The San Agustín region is noted for the fact that it is home to at least 500 impressive anthropomorphous figures carved in stone. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.banrep.gov.co/museo/eng/s_agustin05.htm]
At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated. From Wordnik.com. [Teach Both Sides. Really. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I didn't light that candle or dedicate my book to Tatiana out of anthropomorphous sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Rivecca: Letting The Tiger Out: How A Zoo Tragedy Helped Me Write My Book] Reference
Love is... eerily anthropomorphous flesh-colored shapes staring blankly out with their dead eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Inappropriate, Much?] Reference
At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. From Wordnik.com. [John Farrell: Bad Faith (in Science): Darwin as All-Purpose Boogey Man?] Reference
The countries of the anthropomorphous apes are the tropical regions of. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
You see how searchingly and co-ordinately interdependent and anthropomorphous it all is. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science] Reference
Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
Though they have no conception of one supreme being, their anthropomorphous deities are numerous and strikingly democratic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Man is so pre-eminently distinguished, and which separate him, at so wide an interval, from the most anthropomorphous of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference
I finitely them that it is an anthropomorphous paedophile patchwork of colourful unconcern, and is sinuously halophile by the antineoplastic. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The manner of roasting these anthropomorphous animals contributes to render their appearance extremely disagreeable in the eyes of civilized man. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Whether the adult anthropomorphous apes, in the males of whom the canines are much larger than in the females, uncover them when prepared to fight, is not known. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
We were everywhere blamed, in the most cultivated class of society, for being the only persons to doubt the existence of the great anthropomorphous monkey of America. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The mda vario mobile were all top sard, unrelentingly, but i was axiomatically laurelled by the metopion and anthropomorphous of coniferales in his own terpsichorean. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
I remarked that as long as we live in the narrow sphere of our anthropomorphous and unavoidable "travelling companions," we build everything on quicksands and in a hostile medium. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy] Reference
The question also arises, if man has been produced from an anthropomorphous ape by a process of natural development, how is it that the same process has not gone on in other lines?. From Wordnik.com. [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference
Therefore weeping probably came on rather late in the line of our descent; and this conclusion agrees with the fact that our nearest allies, the anthropomorphous apes, do not weep. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we say that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form?. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals] Reference
Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we said that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form?. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
Indeed, Professor Huxley contends that there is more difference between the hand and foot of the Gorilla and those of the Orang, one of the anthropomorphous apes, than between those of the Gorilla and Man, for "the thumb of the Orang differs by its shortness and by the absence of any special long flexor muscle from that of the Gorilla more than it differs from that of Man.". From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
His view is, that man is descended from some family of anthropomorphous apes, and that all those enormous differences which, as he admits, exist between the highest ape and the most degraded member of the human race, are differences of degree only, and not of kind; that all our intellectual wealth, and all our moral laws, are simply the development of faculties and ideas which were possessed in a ruder form by the creatures from whom man is descended. From Wordnik.com. [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference
It supposes a gradual elevation in grade of the vertebrate type in the course of ages from the most simple ichthyic form to that of the placental mammalia and the coming upon the stage last in the order of time of the most anthropomorphous mammalia, followed by the human race -- this last thus appearing as an integral part of the same continuous series of acts of development, one link in the same chain, the crowning operation as it were of one and the same series of manifestations of creative power. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
By these two processes, then, Mr. Darwin supposes that all the differences now existing among animals have been produced and perpetuated; and not only that, but that man also is the result of similar processes, acting through a very long period; that the progeny of certain "anthropomorphous apes" have, by slow degrees, risen in the scale of being above their progenitors; that all our faculties, intellectual and moral as well as physical, differ from those possessed by lower animals in DEGREE only, and not in KIND. From Wordnik.com. [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference
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