Word: pithecanthropus
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...Pithecanthropus erectus, the 500,000-year-old Java ape-man and first of humanoid type discovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of Amsterdam, the discoverer, will be placed in a public museum for the benefit of all scientists, if a movement started by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, succeeds. The fossil remains have not been exhibited since the 1894 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
...Workmen at St. Ouen, on the Island of Jersey, English Channel, found a prehistoric skull at first claimed to be that of an ape-woman older than Pithecanthropus (500,000 years), our earliest known near human ancestor. But Sir Arthur Keith and Dr. Smith Woodward, of the British Museum, believe it to be of the Neolithic period (from 5,000 to 10,000 years old). It was found in a burial place of people of that time, where bones and implements are plentiful...
...earth's crust are of such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never hurries. But if we add yet another 30,000 years (a second cycle of the pole star) we should find that Pithecanthropus Erectus was posing in Java as the "father of us all" at about the time that "obviously and indubitably the ancients must have been infinitely more spiritual than ourselves and their power lay in their greater understanding of the universe and its laws"--to quote Dr. Getsinger. Oh well! When Anthropology...