Thursday, September 27, 2007

What is an Anthropoid ?

Anthropoid is Greek for "human like". The higher forms of primates, a.k.a. monkeys, apes, humans etc. Check out the Wiki for Simians.
Also term Anthropoid is famous for its historical usage "Operation Anthropoid", a second world war code name used by Check-British forces, for the mission to assassinate "Reinhard Heydrich", a top Nazi leader. Check Wiki for Operation Anthropoid.

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