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ape-man Anthropol.
One of a hypothetical genus of mammals supposed by Haeckel to have been intermediate in character and development between the apes and man. Cf. missing link (b) s.v. missing ppl. a. 4. Also in extended use (quot. 1914).
1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man II. 182 The ape-men, or Alali, were therefore probably already in existence toward the close of the Tertiary Epoch, during the Pliocene Period. 1895Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 8/2 Professor Virchow..held that Dubois's discoveries did not at all prove the existence of an antediluvian ape-man. 1914E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes (1917) xxvi. 240 The ape-man threw the warm carcass of Numa across his shoulders and took to the trees once more. |