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Eoanthropus|iːəʊˈænθrəpəs|
[f. eo- + mod.L. anthropus: see anthropo-.]
The name given to a genus or a member of a genus represented by what was formerly believed to be the skull of a prehistoric man. See Piltdown.
1913A. S. Woodward in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXIX. 135 The facial parts of the skull..differed..from those of any typically human skull. I therefore propose that the Piltdown specimen be regarded as the type of a new genus of the family Hominidæ, to be named Eoanthropus [Ibid. 137 The species of which the skull and mandible have now been described in detail may be named Eoanthropus dawsoni, in honour of its discoverer.] 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans ii. 59 It is perhaps a million years since Eoanthropus and Sinanthropus roamed the earth. |