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Africanthropus Anthropology.|ˌæfrɪkənˈθrəʊpəs, -ˈkænθrəʊpəs|
[mod.L., f. Africa + Gr. ἄνθρωπος man.]
The name given to a type of primitive hominid of the Pleistocene in Africa, known from remains found near Lake Njarasa (or Eyasi) in Tanzania. In full Africanthropus njarasensis.
[1939H. Weinert in Zeitschr. f. Morphologie & Anthropologie XXXVIII. 252 Africanthropus njarasensis.] 1946L. S. B. Leakey in Jrnl. East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. XIX. 43 The Eyasi Skull..has now been studied in detail by Dr. Weinert, who has created a new genus Africanthropus for it. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. iii. 90 Africanthropus njarasensis is a discovery, made by Kohl-Larsen in 1935, whose definitive description is one of many delayed by World War II. |