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Pithecanthropus erectus

NOUN
  1. former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

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  • Homo erectus was formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus
  • He's a cross between Mohamed Atta and Pithecanthropus erectus. Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair
  • During a dig on the island of Java, he discovered the first fossils of a Pithecanthropus erectus.
  • 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
  • ‘On the gibbon-like appearance of Pithecanthropus erectus’ THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • This ‘Java or Solo man’ was named Pithecanthropus erectus, which means ‘upright ape man’.
  • Not of course the original Garden of Eden, though the remains of Java Man, the celebrated pithecanthropus erectus, were discovered in the lowlands on this side of Merapi in 1891. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
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