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Telanthropus
[ tuh-lan-thruh-puhs, tel-an-throh-puhs ]
noun
- a former genus of fossil hominins, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa, during 1949–1950, and now considered a specimen of the proposed species Homo erectus.
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Origin of Telanthropus1
First recorded in 1945–50; from New Latin; tel(e)- 2 + Greek ánthrōpos “human being, man”
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