sinanthropus

sin·an·thro·pus  (s-nnthr-ps, s-, snn-thrps, snn-)

n.

See Peking man.

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[New Latin Snanthrpus, former genus name : Sino- + Greek anthrpos, human being.]

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sinanthropus [sɪnˈænθrəpəs]

n

(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) a primitive apelike man of the genus Sinanthropus, now considered a subspecies of Homo erectus See also Java man, Peking man

[from New Latin, from Late Latin Sīnae the Chinese + -anthropus, from Greek anthrōpos man]

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sinanthropus  (s-nnthr-ps, s-, snn-thrps, snn-)

An extinct hominid postulated from bones found in China in the late 1920s and originally designated Sinanthropus pekinensis in the belief that it represented a species evolutionarily preceding humans. Sinanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus. Also called Peking man. See more at Homo erectus.

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Sinanthropus - genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned genus Sinanthropus hominid - a primate of the family Hominidae