- Look up
sinanthropus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sinanthropus (from Sino-, "China", and anthro-, "man") is an
archaic genus in the scientific...
- 1934) was a
Canadian paleoanthropologist, best
known for his
naming of
Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo
erectus pekinensis). He was
Chairman of the Geological...
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regarded as "synonyms" with Homo,
including Pithecanthropus, Protanthropus,
Sinanthropus, Cyphanthropus, Africanthropus, Telanthropus, Atlanthropus, and Tchadanthropus...
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Peking Man (Homo
erectus pekinensis,
originally "
Sinanthropus pekinensis") is a
subspecies of H.
erectus which inhabited what is now
northern China during...
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ancient human remains recently being unearthed in
China (Peking Man, "
Sinanthropus pekinensis"). This
characterization became better supported as German-Dutch...
- include:
Pithecanthropus (Dubois, 1894),
Protanthropus (Haeckel, 1895),
Sinanthropus (Black, 1927),
Cyphanthropus (Pycraft, 1928)
Africanthropus (Dreyer,...
- was the "missing link". Eventually,
similarities between Java Man and
Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking Man) led
Ernst Mayr to
rename both Homo
erectus in...
- Mission. Woo, J.K. (1964), "A
Newly Discovered Mandible of the
Sinanthropus Type:
Sinanthropus Lantianensis",
Scientia Sinica, 13: 801–811, PMID 14170540...
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similarity to the
Peking Man (at the time "
Sinanthropus" pekinensis), and
provisionally classified it as "
Sinanthropus" lantianensis. This
spurred further investigation...
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Pithecanthropus erectus, with the
characters of the
Peking Man, then
named Sinanthropus pekinensis.
Weidenreich concluded in 1940 that
because of
their anatomical...
