Apelike refers to a resemblance or similarity to an ape, but what are the antonyms for this term? The antonyms for apelike are human, refined, cultured, and sophisticated. These words are used to describe a higher degree of intelligence, manners, and culture that distinguishes humans from animals such as apes. The human antonym for apelike suggests a characteristic that is more refined, possessing a greater level of cognitive ability, and higher social standards. On the other hand, being refined, cultured or sophisticated means that an individual has a high degree of taste, education and manners, which distinguishes them from beings like apes or animals.

What are the antonyms for Apelike?

• adj.

  • noun
  • human
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  • nonimitative
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• Well, evolution a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome. And human beings evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other, yet to be discovered. [...] Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

  Stephen Jay Gould
• Religion, Wilson theorizes, is so prevalent because it provided a definite evolutionary advantage for those early humans who adopted it. ...when our apelike ancestors gradually became more intelligent, individuals could rationally begin to question the power of their leader. ...a dangerous, dissipative force on the tribe. ...Thus, according to Wilson, a selective pressure was placed on intelligent apes to suspend reason and blindly obey the leader and his myths...

  E. O. Wilson

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