Ape-person
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ape-person is a noun meaning A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.
Meaning
A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.
Example Sentences
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.
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 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.
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.
Word Forms
- ape-people
- ape-persons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include apeman, ape-man, proto-human, australopithecine, prehuman, protohuman.
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