Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genus name formerly used for the fossil remains known as Peking man.
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- proper noun anthropology, paleontology, archaeology, obsolete A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamily Homininae — a group ofextinct bipedal hominids .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have always enjoyed pointing out that a Catholic priest (Lemaitre) conceived of the Big Bang, and a Jesuit (Teilhard de Chardin) discovered Homo erectus (then called Sinanthropus, Peking man).
"Eppur, si muove..." 2006
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I have always enjoyed pointing out that a Catholic priest (Lemaitre) conceived of the Big Bang, and a Jesuit (Teilhard de Chardin) discovered Homo erectus (then called Sinanthropus, Peking man).
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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I've also recently posted regarding the supraordinal clade euarchontaglires and the Asian origin of primates at Sinanthropus
We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
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Where did Sinanthropus pekinensis fit in the human family tree?
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Where did Sinanthropus pekinensis fit in the human family tree?
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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