I.G. St. Hilaire is clearly in error in ascribing the invention of the term "quadrumanous" to. From Wordnik.com. [On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals] Reference
I.G. St. Hilaire is clearly in error in ascribing the invention of the term "quadrumanous" to Buffon, though "himanous" may belong to him. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Many persons possess at least one quadrumanous or embryonic character. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
I first consider those which are used in the tables of embryonic, quadrumanous, and race characters. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
It must be borne in mind that the quadrumanous indications are found in the lower classes of the most developed races. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
The strongly convex upper lip frequently seen among the lower classes of the Irish is a modified quadrumanous character. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
The next suggests a closer association of our ancestors of the olden time with "our poor relations" of the quadrumanous family than we like to acknowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
The only quadrumanous animal in the group is the curious baboon-monkey, Cynopithecus nigrescens, already described as being one of the characteristic animals of Celebes. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
The only quadrumanous animal in the group is the curious baboon-monkey. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference
He made a spring at me, and if the keeper had not pulled me back would have treated me unhandsomely, like a quadrumanous rough, as he was. From Wordnik.com. [Our Hundred Days in Europe] Reference
On the other hand, however, there is reason to doubt whether this form of tibia in man is really a survival from his quadrumanous ancestry. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
He supposes that a race of quadrumanous apes gradually acquired the upright position in walking, with a corresponding modification of the feet and facial angle. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
The terms "bimanous" and "quadrumanous" had been already employed by Buffon in 1766, but not applied in a strict zoological classification till so used by Blumenbach. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Wallace has sought to draw a refined distinction between this vestigial coating and the useful coating of quadrumanous animals, in the absence of the former from the human back. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
Between the cave men of the pre-Glacial age and the hypothetical hairy quadrumanous ancestor aforesaid there must have intervened innumerable generations of gradually improving intermediate forms. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
In dealing with the suggestion that man differs from the apes in being bimanous, while the apes are quadrumanous, Huxley first explained and discussed what the exact differences between hands and feet are. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
He betrays his relation to what is below him, -- thick-skulled, small - brained, fishy, quadrumanous, -- quadruped ill-disguised, hardly escaped into biped, and has paid for the new powers by loss of some of the old ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference
As a matter of fact, however, the absence of an external tail in man is precisely what this doctrine would expect, seeing that the nearest allies of man in the quadrumanous series are likewise destitute of an external tail. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
Moreover, during embryonic life, both of the anthropoid apes and of man, the tail much more closely resembles that of the lower kinds of quadrumanous animals from which these higher representatives of the group have descended. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
But, even as thus restricted, the number of obsolescent structures which we all present in our own persons is so remarkable, that their combined testimony to our descent from a quadrumanous ancestry appears to me in itself conclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
The saimiri, or titi of the Orinoco, the atele, the sajou, and other quadrumanous animals long known in Europe, form a striking contrast, both in their gait and habits, with the macavahu, called by the missionaries viudita, or widow in mourning. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Hence he concludes that it refers us to our quadrumanous ancestry -- the young of anthropoid apes being endowed with similar powers of grasping, in order to hold on to the hair of the mother when she is using her arms for the purposes of locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
“quadrumanous” to Buffon, though “himanous” may belong to him. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
"evolved" from his quadrumanous condition to answer the question in person, as the engines which were his hobby in the end compassed his untimely death!. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
According to conventional wisdom, your quadrumanous friend Sophie is most likely to enjoy a meal of: a.). From Wordnik.com. [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference
"Moreover, man is not truly quadrumanous; for he has not, like the monkeys, an almost equal facility in using the fingers of his feet, and of seizing objects with them. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
This is a quadrumanous approximation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
quadrumanous. From Wordnik.com. [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference
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