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Anthropoid may refer to:
- Simian
The simians are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, , and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. Simians tend to be larger than the "lower primates" or prosimians.- Classification and evolution :The simians are split into three groups...
, monkeys and apes
- Anthropoides
Anthropoides is a small genus of cranes. It contains just two species:* Blue Crane, Anthropoides paradisea, resident in southern Africa* Demoiselle Crane, Anthropoides virgo which breeds in central Asia and eastern Turkey...
, a genus of cranes
- Operation Anthropoid
Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office , the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the Jews...
, the codename for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich
See also
- Android
An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human. The word derives from ανδρός, the genitive of the Greek ανήρ anēr, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" . Though the word derives from a gender-specific root, its usage in...
, a human-like robot
- Arthropod
An arthropod is an invertebrate that has an exoskeleton , a segmented body, and jointed attachments called appendages. Arthropods are animals belonging to the Phylum Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others...
Monkeys, apes, and humans form a subgroup of primates called the anthropoids. The well-developed collarbone, rotating shoulder joints, and partially rotating elbow joints give anthropoids skeletal strength and flexibility.