Semihuman

It narrates how some skeletons were found in one of the French Departments semihuman in character, the body apish, and the skull human.

"In the forest," Kortlandt says, "the semihuman element in the behavior of apes faded away to a large extent."

Four stories up, young game creators in T-shirts peck away at Silicon Graphics Inc. workstations, putting semihuman figures through movements that defy gravity and logic.

Somewhat like people in the ancient and medieval world, who imagined semihuman creatures standing between animal life and civilization, modern observers often assume Pygmies are Stone Age relics who exist as social fossils in the deep recesses of the equatorial forests.