apelike

[ayp-lahyk]

adjective

1. similar to an ape in behavior, movement, speech, or appearance.

Example Sentences

“I was struck by her more apelike features,” he says.

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In 1925, Raymond Dart, an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand, announced the discovery of a partial skull of an apelike juvenile excavated from a quarry in the town of Taung.

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For a hominin of this time period, the heel bone was too apelike, and the midfoot, ankle, knee, hip and lower back showed strange traits in both skeletons.

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Little Foot’s species blended apelike and humanlike traits and is considered a possible direct ancestor of humans.

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It is a testament to Darwin’s scientific audacity that he was not particularly bothered by the prospect of human descent from apelike ancestors.

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