Word: erectus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have seen them. Heuvelmans suspects that they are related to the nittaewo, the semi-aborigines of Ceylon, who were killed off about 1800 by the primitive Veddahs. Heuvelmans' theory is that much of southern Asia was inhabited long ago by small, hairy descendants of Java's Pithecanthropus erectus, who were largely exterminated by the invading humans. The orang pendeks, hiding deep in Sumatran jungles, may be the sole survivors...
...Approximately the same age and description as Java man (Pithecanthropus erectus) of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, whose skullcap and femur were first uncovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois...
...lives there . . . She is a female of the species Paranthropus erectus...
...months after French Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...
...Sinanthropus pekinensis, dating back to the Pleistocene era, is believed by some anthropologists to be older than Pithecanthropus erectus, the brutish apeman of Java...