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Trinil|ˈtriːnɪl|
The name of a village in Java, used attrib. to designate the fossil remains found there by Eugène Dubois in 1891, esp. those of a hominid, Homo erectus or Java man. Cf. Java a., pithecanthropus 2.
1896Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XXV. 245 The Trinil skull in form and size very closely resembles the type of the anthropoid apes. 1898E. Dubois in Sci. Trans. R. Dublin Soc. VI. 9 The human form of the Trinil femur is not sufficient to prove that it did not belong to the same individual as the skull-cap. Ibid. 12 The Trinil individual, if a human being, ought to have been a microcephalic idiot... The Trinil cranium..very much approaches the type of Anthropoid Apes. 1933A. S. Romer Man & Vertebrates xi. 237 The teeth are essentially human in character but do not definitely settle the status of this Trinil man. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 210/1 The Trinil man's teeth are large and his dental arch narrow. 1975G. H. R. von Koenigswald in R. H. Tuttle Paleoanthropology 304 The famous hominid of the Trinil fauna is the classic Pithecanthropus or Homo erectus. Ibid. 305 It [sc. a skull] is not directly comparable to the Trinil skull cap. |