Crossword-Solution: CATARRHINI
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CATARRHINI (5)
But, it by no means follows, that the rule which may hold good for the Platyrrhini extends to the Catarrhini.
From these there branched off on the one side the platyrrhini, or apes with a flat nose, on the new continent; on the other, the catarrhini, or apes with a narrow nose, on the old.
The Catarrhini are restricted entirely to the Old World, and include the gorilla, the chimpanzee and orang-utan.
The absence from America at any period of the world's history not only of anthropoid apes but also of the _Cercopithecidae_, in other words of the Catarrhini, entirely precludes the possibility of the independent origin of man in the western hemisphere.
The real anthropoids, Hæckel’s Catarrhini and Platyrrhini, came far later, in the closing times of Atlantis.