Word: sinanthropus
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...equally famed old man of China, Sinanthropus or Pekin man, is definitely human but paradoxically more primitive in some features than Pithecanthropus. It is not certain that Sinanthropus is older than Pithecanthropus, although the workers in China think so. Both appear to have lived somewhere near the beginning of the Pleistocene. One figure given for their ages is 500,000 years; another is 1,000,000 years. Two conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens...
Father de Chardin came to this country to attend last week's International Symposium on Early Man, which was held in Philadelphia. With him he brought valuable material on the remains of what is known as the "sinanthropus pekinensis...
Digging in the Chou-Kou-Tien limestone, 37 miles southwest of Peiping, has been going on for a decade. On the evidence of a single tooth, Dr. Davidson Black set up Pekin Man as a new genus and species which he called Sinanthropus pekinensis. Seven years ago a Chinese geologist found an immature female skull. Then another childish cranial piece and many more skeletal fragments were turned up, including twelve jaws and about 100 teeth, representing some 24 individuals. After Dr. Black died his work was continued through the Rockefeller-endowed Cenozoic Research Laboratory by Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Peiping...
...This week the Archaeological Institute of America meets in Washington for formal discussion.*Sinanthropus (Pekin man) is claimed to be the second oldest hominid discovered. The oldest: Pithecanthropus erectus (Java...