Meaning of pithecanthropoid | Babel Free

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One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.

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“And about 40,000 generations separate the australopithecines from their successors, the pithecanthropoids, whom we think of as the first animals that indisputably must be classed as men.”

“They may in fact have been disposed of more directly: pithecanthropoids certainly ate each other and are likely to have killed and eaten their weaker kin.”

“The brow is without the frontal overhang found in adult pithecanthropoids, but though there is no supra-orbital ridge, there is marked post-orbital constriction.”

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