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• Sinanthropus
  Sinanthropus

  noun

  the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
• sinanthropus
  sinanthropus

  noun

  a primitive apelike man of the genus Sinanthropus, now considered a subspecies of Homo erectus See also Java man Peking man

Sinanthropus

American  

[sahy-nan-thruh-puhs, si-, sahy-nan-throh-puhs, sin-an-] / saɪˈnæn θrə pəs, sɪ-, ˌsaɪ nænˈθroʊ pəs, ˌsɪn æn- /

noun

1. the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.

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sinanthropus British  

/ sɪnˈænθrəpəs /

noun

1. a primitive apelike man of the genus Sinanthropus, now considered a subspecies of Homo erectus See also Java man Peking man

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sinanthropus Scientific  

/ sī-năn′thrə-pəs,sĭ-,sī′năn-thrō′pəs,sĭn′ăn- /

1. 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.

2. Also called Peking man

3. See more at Homo erectus

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Etymology

Origin of Sinanthropus

From New Latin (1927), equivalent to Sin- “Chinese” + Greek ánthrōpos “man”; see origin at Sino-

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Sinanthropus

The species were originally described as Sinanthropus pekinensis.

From National Geographic

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

It is not certain that Sinanthropus is older than Pithecanthropus, although the workers in China think so.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the evidence of a single tooth, Dr. Davidson Black set up Pekin Man as a new genus and species which he called Sinanthropus pekinensis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sinanthropus was first described to the world by Dr. Davidson Black on the basis of a single tooth.

From Time Magazine Archive