Pithecanthropus

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• Others claim that the pithecanthropus was the end of a special branch of the apes; the Heidelberg man the last of another extinct branch; the Piltdown man and the Neanderthal man, likewise the last of other extinct species. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
• 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
• Among the early additions were the Pithecanthropus fossils (the so-called Java man) from a human-sized hominid with heavy brow ridges and a brain of intermediate size.
• We encounter the term ‘ape man’ in its Greek version, Pithecanthropus, in the writings of Ernst Haeckel, who was one of Charles Darwin's great supporters in Germany during the nineteenth century.
• Breuil and Teilhard discovered that the Sinanthropus, or Pekin Man, of Chou-Kou-Tien, closely related to the Pithecanthropus of Java, was a Homo Faber, i.e. he used fire and stone tools.
• Pithecanthropus" erectus, described by the Dutch anatomist Eugene Dubois, was an immediate sensation. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Let us assume that the pithecanthropus really lived 750,000 years ago, as claimed, which is 1. 25\% of The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
• Prof. Cope, a distinguished anatomist, says, "The femur [of the pithecanthropus] is that of a man, it is in no sense a connecting link. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
• Homo erectus was formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus
• If the scattered remains of the pithecanthropus were found in the sand only 40 ft. below the surface, and the rate of accumulation were no greater than the slow accretions that buried the mountain city of The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments