pithecanthropus

IPA: pˈɪθʌkˈænθrʌpʊs

Examples of "pithecanthropus" in Sentences

Let us assume that the pithecanthropus really lived 750,000 years ago, as claimed, which is 1. 25\% of
The pithecanthropus was the first to reach it and the ape-man saw him spring upward for a handhold on the lowest peg above him.
Prof. Cope, a distinguished anatomist, says, "The femur [of the pithecanthropus] is that of a man, it is in no sense a connecting link."
Not of course the original Garden of Eden, though the remains of Java Man, the celebrated pithecanthropus erectus, were discovered in the lowlands on this side of Merapi in 1891.
Even H.G. Wells, who seems ready to endorse the most extravagant views, says (Outline of History, p. 69), "We can not say that it (the pithecanthropus) is a direct human ancestor."
If the scattered remains of the pithecanthropus were found in the sand only 40 ft. below the surface, and the rate of accumulation were no greater than the slow accretions that buried the mountain city of
Others claim that the pithecanthropus was the end of a special branch of the apes; the Heidelberg man the last of another extinct branch; the Piltdown man and the Neanderthal man, likewise the last of other extinct species.