Even in the basically mutating colony, there had been a decidedly simian appearance in recent years, a long shift from the garbage-dump rats I had started with.
The chin and jaw were humanlike instead of simian and the dental equipment was appropriate to this structure.
Our Simian Ancestry How I hate the man who talks about the "brute creation," with an ugly emphasis on brute.
A visitor once interrupted him in the midst of a ball game that he was playing with Cain and a number of his Simian friends, to ask him how his grandmother was.
The simian and frog-like gestures and sprawling attitudes are far from arousing amiable sensations.
Lyell criticised somewhat severely Owen's account of the difference between the Human and Simian brains.
But its simiansmile was quickly turned to surprise, for like a flash Billie snatched the weapon from its hand and aimed it at the animal's head.
With a cry of recognition the simian started to descend the stairs, but at a noise from above he hesitated and then sprang back and out of sight.
Professor Thunder, what branch of the Simian family this--this creature of yours belongs?
Heaven has punished them already, Professor," said the Missing Link, with a wide, simian smile.
Nickie walked along the back wall of his cage two or three times withsimian ungainliness, turning with a peculiar spring that Mr. Crips had learned from the Orang.
It has to be borne in mind that Linnaeus, plainly as he recognized the likeness of the higher simian and the human types, does not seem to have entertained the thought of accounting for this similarity by common descent.
At any rate, classing the Trinil skull as human, it may be described as tending towards the simian type more than any other known.
The foreheads of these two skulls have an ape-like form, obvious on comparison with the simian skulls of the gorilla and other apes, and visible even in the small-scale figures in the Plate, fig.
The new development from Linnaeus's zoological scheme which has thus ensued appears in Huxley's diagram of simian and human skeletons (fig.
But we must not fall into the error of supposing that the early progenitor of the whole Simian stock, including man, was identical with, or even closely resembled, any existing ape or monkey.
I had no business interesting myself in that simian jabber.
He found that Major Minton was on a level with himself in his acquaintance with the simian language.
He had an idea, his wife told me, that he understood the simian language, and he was for ever practising his knowledge upon our tame baboon.
He had merely given the simian word of alarm, which the creature, understanding its mother tongue, had promptly acted upon.
The simian language was recognised by the Doctor, and replied to with a smile, and for some time the two exchanged remarks.
These, if the simian his course but trim To copy them as they have copied him, Will call him "educated.
Detested simian with thumb prehensile, Switch me and I would brain you with my pencil!
In the autumn he set to work to make good his promise of demonstrating the existence in the simian brain of the structures alleged to be exclusively human.
If the races of mankind are the progeny of the Simian stock, may not their languages be the progeny of the Simian tongue?
Another occupant of the same cage had shown a disposition to become friendly with me, and on this occasion came bravely to the bars of the cage and showed a desire to share the pleasure of my visit with his little Simian brother.
The records that I made of various specimens of the Simian race I repeated to myself over and over, until I became familiar with them, and learned to imitate a few of them, mostly by the use of mechanical devices.
The forehead is vertical instead of receding, and the strongly projecting brow-ridges are diminished, the jaw is less massive and less simian with regard to all the features mentioned above.
No impartial philologist can hesitate any longer to admit that our elaborate rational language has been slowly and gradually developed out of the imperfect speech of our Pliocene simian ancestors.
He need not therefore have accepted the whole simian theory, at least he does not say so; but that each man, and the entire human race, has descended from an unknown pair of animals, he appears to receive as indubitable.
For myself this inquiry into the simian origin of man never had any great interest; I even doubt whether the Horseherd would have laid great stress upon it.
I have therefore no prejudices such as the advocates of the simian theory like to attribute to us.
Devil Prince of this Cosmos: a priori reasoning: the Established Church and our simian origin: attack on the School Board compromise.
The last proposition is still better illustrated by the study of the modifications which other parts of the cranium undergo in the Simian series.
They are among the most distinctly Simian peculiarities which the human organism exhibits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
