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Sinanthropus|sɪˈnænθrəʊpəs|
[mod.L. (D. Black 1927, in Palæontologica Sinica D. VII. i. 21), f. Sino- + Gr. ἄνθρωπος man.]
= Peking man s.v. Peking 3. Hence Sinanˈthropic a., of or pertaining to a fossil hominid of this kind; Siˈnanthropoid a. [-oid], resembling Sinanthropus.
1928Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 9/3 A human tooth as old as the Java ape man..has been named Sinanthropus, or ‘the Peking man’. 1931A. Keith New Discoveries Antiquity of Man xvii. 260 The Sinanthropic mandibular fragment is broken short at the socket for the second incisor. 1937Ann. Reg. 1936 52 Parts of three skulls of Palaeoanthropus showing Sinanthropoid features..were found in the Upper Pleistocene in Tanganyika. 1965B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleology iii. 22 Sinanthropus used caves for shelter. 1978Nagel's Encycl.-Guide: China 298 Great pride was taken in the discovery of remains of ‘sinanthropus’ which were older still than those found at Zhou Kou dian by Teilhard de Chardin. |