Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extinct hominin known from fossil remains discovered in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily intermediate between humans and nonhuman apes. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus. It is sometimes referred to as Java man.
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- proper noun Java Man.
- proper noun Former name of
Homo erectus /
Etymologies
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Examples
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All the fossils that had been called Pithecanthropus—for example, Java and Peking men—were now labeled Homo erectus, as Clark Howell had suggested in an influential 1960 paper.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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All the fossils that had been called Pithecanthropus—for example, Java and Peking men—were now labeled Homo erectus, as Clark Howell had suggested in an influential 1960 paper.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Homo erectus was then known only from fossils discovered in Java in the 1890s—although the remains a jawbone, skullcap, thighbone, and two teeth were initially classified as Pithecanthropus erectus, or the “erect ape man.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Homo erectus was then known only from fossils discovered in Java in the 1890s—although the remains a jawbone, skullcap, thighbone, and two teeth were initially classified as Pithecanthropus erectus, or the “erect ape man.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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"Pithecanthropus" erectus, described by the Dutch anatomist Eugene Dubois, was an immediate sensation.
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‘On the gibbon-like appearance of Pithecanthropus erectus’
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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As I said, both the Java and Peking specimens of Pithecanthropus have now been shown to be quite young, less than a million years old.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Creationists have from time to time used as a political weapon the allegation that Dubois backed off from his claim that Pithecanthropus was an intermediate ape-man.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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He's a cross between Mohamed Atta and Pithecanthropus erectus.
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Tales like "The Devil's Asteroid" and "Pithecanthropus Rejecticus" have been reprinted but there are many others that deserve to be collected and read again.
The Other Manly Wade Wellman Dark Worlds Club 2009
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