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neanthropic, a.|niːænˈθrɒpɪk|
Also neoanthropic, and with capital initial.
[f. neo- + anthropic a.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating the single extant species of man as distinguished from extinct forms known from their fossil remains.
Quot. 1916 may represent an independent coinage.
1894J. W. Dawson Meeting-Place Geol. & Hist. i. 17 The modern, or anthropic [period], is..divisible into two sections—the early modern, or palanthropic, sometimes called quaternary, or post-glacial, and which may coincide with the antediluvian period of human history; and the neanthropic, extending onward to the present time. [Note] I have preferred..to call the earlier races of men palaeocosmic and the later neocosmic,..while the periods to which they belong are respectively the Palanthropic and Neanthropic. 1916G. E. Smith Primitive Man 18 Thus the new spirit of man and modern man himself are revealed in the Upper Palaeolithic period. This Neoanthropic phase, as I have called it, thus begins in the Aurignacian period. 1939McCown & Keith Stone Age Mt. Carmel II. xxii. 362 In Neanderthal skulls the great wing and the orbital plate of the malar tend to be wide; in Neanthropic skulls they tend to be narrow. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. iv. 77 The ‘neanthropic’ or modern (Homo sapiens) form of man. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & Human Origins xi. 175/1 The neanthropic (new man) line included fossils that were more or less modern throughout time. |