| 单词 | neanderthal man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNeanderthal man 1. Physical Anthropology. Designating, relating to, or characteristic of a Middle Palaeolithic fossil hominid with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges, known from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Esp. in Neanderthal man.Neanderthal man was originally regarded as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis (so named by W. King in Q. Jrnl. Sci. (1864) 1 88–97; cf. quot. 1864), and later as a subspecies of H. sapiens, H. sapiens neanderthalensis; it is now increasingly viewed as a separate species again, probably at the end of a different evolutionary line from H. sapiens.The Neanderthals were associated with the Mousterian flint industry. 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 1861 G. Busk tr. D. Schaaffhausen in Nat. Hist. Rev. Apr. 167 The considerations which have led us to compare the Neanderthal cranium with those of the most ancient races are still further confirmed by the discovery..of skulls exhibiting a yet closer correspondence with it. 1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature iii. 142 The posterior lobe of the brain of the Neanderthal man must have been as much flattened as I suspected it to be. 1864 Q. Jrnl. Sci. 1 88 It is my intention to confine myself to the consideration of the Neanderthal fossil with reference to its place in Nature. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 145/2 Neanderthal man is now revealed as an uncouth race with an enormous flattened head, very prominent eye-brow ridges and a coarse face. 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo vii. 117 Neanderthal Man lived here in Southern Africa. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins xi. 176/2 In the material that follows I shall use the term Neandertal sensu lato, that is, in the broad sense. The term will designate the early stages of the within-species evolution of Homo sapiens. 1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams v. 179 Many archaeologists believe man came to North America in two waves. The first..brought with it flaked stone and bone tools comparable to Neanderthal man's Mousterian tools. 1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones xiv. 229 The most spectacular of Upper Paleolithic burials have all the attributes of Neandertal burials. < as lemmas |
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