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palæanˈthropic, a.
Also palæoanthropic and with the prefix written pale-.
[f. palæo-, paleo- + anthropic a.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating extinct prehistoric forms of man.
Quot. 1916 may represent an independent coinage.
1890Cent. Dict. V, Paleo-anthropic. 1916G. E. Smith in Amer. Museum Jrnl. XVI. 325/2 If we refer to the epoch of the modern type of man as the Neoanthropic age,..the Mousterian period and all of man's record that went before it can then be included in a Palæanthropic age. 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans ii. 52 Modern types (Neanthropic) of man appear in Europe as the last ice-sheet began to retreat and the earlier types (Palæanthropic) seem to have disappeared. 1954Sci. Amer. Sept. 52/3 Paleoanthropic man is clearly a tool user, a worker in stone and bone. 1962C. S. Coon Origin of Races viii. 334 How many grades..shall we recognize in fossil and living men?.. A compromise nomenclature is Protoanthropic, Paleanthropic, and Neanthropic. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & Human Origins xi. 175/2 The paleanthropic line has included the finds of: Neandertal, Heidelberg, Peking, Java, Solo, Broken Hill (Rhodesia). |