单词 | dawn man |
释义 | dawn mann. Palaeontology. Usually with capital initials: the (fraudulent) Piltdown man, ‘ Eoanthropus’. Also: any early extinct hominid. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1912 S. Smith Woodward in Manch. Guardian 21 Dec. 5/1 For the genus represented in the skull I proposed the name Eoanthropus (‘man of dawn’).] 1913 Manch. Guardian 10 May 8/1 The remains of the ‘Dawn-man’, as he was happily termed under the rather barbarous term Evanthropus [sic] Dawsonii. 1913 Nature 2 Oct. 131/2 It is quite certain that they [sc. the Piltdown skull fragments] afford the first evidence we have obtained of a hitherto unknown group of the Hominidae so fundamentally distinct from all the early fossil men found in Europe as to be worthy of generic distinction—a ‘dawn-man’ of a very primitive and generalised type. 1914 Amer. Museum Jrnl. 14 191/1 All agree that the Dawn Man dates at the very latest from the Old Stone Age. 1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 190 The breeding season of the Dawn-Men may have been an annual affair. 1975 W. Meredith Hazard, Painter in Partial Accts. (1987) 109 Dawn men watch in awe from the bushes this blood cousin in a world of crusty things. 2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 26 Aug. 69/1 Dubbed ‘Dawson's Dawn Man’, Eoanthropus dawsoni didn't have a lot of competition at the time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1913 |
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