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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

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

He made his reputation in 1929 when he discovered the skull of Sinanthropus, the Peking man, who lived half a million years ago.

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

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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