Look up sinanthropus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sinanthropus (from Sino-, "China", and anthro-, "man") is an archaic genus in the scientific...
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Peking Man (redirect from Sinanthropus pekinensis)
palaeoanthropologist Davidson Black made the holotype of a new taxon, Sinanthropus pekinensis. That year, Chinese geologist Wēng Wénhào drafted an agreement...
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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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discovery of what Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black called "Sinanthropus pekinensis" (Peking Man) at the Zhoukoudian cave near Beijing, China...
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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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include: Pithecanthropus (Dubois, 1894), Protanthropus (Haeckel, 1895), Sinanthropus (Black, 1927), Cyphanthropus (Pycraft, 1928) Africanthropus (Dreyer,...
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was the "missing link". Eventually, similarities between Java Man and Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking Man) led Ernst Mayr to rename both Homo erectus in...
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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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Human activity in the region began with the extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus one million–800,000 years ago in the Karatau Mountains and the Caspian...
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