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Definition of Bipedality
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bipedality
Literary usage of Bipedality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"It is like denying bipedality by insisting that hands are only forefeet highly
evolved. Perhaps they are—but that does not destroy the bipedality, ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1911)
"... who would have taken the sound man to be the mode of agitating the air which
is essentially communicative of the ideas of reason, cookery, bipedality, ..."
3. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"bipedality A two-footed mode of progression as an adaptation to speed has been
repeatedly evolved among vertebrates, as follows: Reptiles. ..."
4. The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: A Series Delivered Before by Joseph Barrell, Charles Schuchert, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Richard Swann Lull, Ellsworth Huntington (1918)
"Swift movement, which in this instance implies bipedality, evidently preceded
flight, and its impression on the bird was so great that it has never been ..."
5. The Biographical History of Philosophy: From Its Origin in Greece Down to by George Henry Lewes (1893)
"... namely the animal is matter, the form is however not one, but many, ie
rationality, morality, bipedality, and all the other substantial attributes. ..."
6. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"... for some group of reptiles, living or extinct, is characterized by bipedality,
by wings, by beak, by lack of teeth, by reduced tail, or by four toes. ..."
7. Mediaeval Philosophy, Or, A Treatise of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy by Frederick Denison Maurice (1870)
"... of form which is not one but plural, of rationality and mortality and bipedality,
and if there are any other substantial qualities requisite thereto. ..."
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