Definitions for Pithecanthropus

Pithecanthropus Pith·e·can·thro·pus

Spelling: [pith-i-kan-thruh-puh s, -kuh n- Pithecanthropus is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

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Definitions for Pithecanthropus

noun

  1. a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.

Origin of Pithecanthropus

New Latin (1891) Greek píthēk(os) ape + ánthrōpos man

Examples for Pithecanthropus

Thus the author placed Pithecanthropus in a new family, of the order Primates, which he named the Pithecanthropid.

The thigh-bone shows that Pithecanthropus could have stood and walked erect quite comfortably.

This Pithecanthropus excited the liveliest interest as the long-sought transitional form between man and the ape.

Pithecanthropus raises the vexed question as to whether the erect attitude or brain development came first in the story.

Pithecanthropus (of Java) branched off as a distinct genus about the middle of the Miocene.

Maybe Pithecanthropus had a monkey uncle, but no Pithecanthropus ever went monkey.

Nevertheless, even in Pithecanthropus, the brute is passing into the man.

Thus Pithecanthropus has been confidently assigned to a place in a branch of the human family tree.

The remains of Pithecanthropus were recovered from an alluvial deposit at Trinil.

The famous Eppelsheim femur is straighter than, and as slender as that of Pithecanthropus.

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