An extinct hominid postulated from bones found in China in the late 1920s and originally designated Sinanthropus pekinensis in the belief that it represented a species evolutionarily preceding humans. Sinanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.
Also called Peking man
See more at Homo erectus
From New Latin (1927), equivalent to Sin- “Chinese” + Greek ánthrōpos “man”; see origin at Sino-
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The species were originally described as Sinanthropus pekinensis.
From National Geographic
Subsequently, one Sinanthropus find after another was made at Choukoutien, and the old Peking Man's anatomy came to be fairly well known.
From Time Magazine Archive
For years Dr. Weidenreich has insisted that China's Sinanthropus was more primitive than Java's Pithecanthropus, which he regards as a backward offshoot of the Neanderthal men who emerged later in Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Science last week Dr. Weidenreich described in detail the first thighbones of Sinanthropus, discovered by Dr. Pei among last season's material collected from the Choukoutien caves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java.
From Time Magazine Archive
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