Word: sinanthropus
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...Chinese Communists have already accused the U.S. of abducting one of the world's two oldest relics of human existence : Peking man (Sinanthropus pekinensis}, whose 250,000-year-old remains* were first unearthed near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist W. C. Pei. Dr. Pei, apparently a Red convert, claimed in 1951 that the Japanese had heisted the bones during World War II, and (worse yet) that U.S. "agents" had snatched them from Japan after...
...Sinanthropus pekinensis, dating back to the Pleistocene era, is believed by some anthropologists to be older than Pithecanthropus erectus, the brutish apeman of Java...
...chung is China's most noted paleontologist. He made his reputation in 1929 when he discovered the skull of Sinanthropus, the Peking man, who lived half a million years ago. Recently Dr. Pei discovered some Chinese contemporaries known as "The Fire Society." Shocked and angry after a trip to his native village, he wrote about it in Tientsin's Ta Kung...
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest of Peking. Digging continued through 1941 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. High point was the discovery of the first skull in 1929. Geological data indicated that Peking Man lived over 500,000 years ago, which would make him older than the Piltdown and Neanderthal Man and possibly...
...scientists found some differences in the Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus skull shapes, but also some exact resemblances, even in minor structural details. Peking Man's molar and premolar teeth are more primitive, but Java Man has a wide gap between his canines and incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their...