单词 | eoanthropus |
释义 | Eoanthropusn. Palaeontology. Now historical. A supposed extinct hominid formerly given the name Eoanthropus dawsoni but subsequently shown to be a hoax (see Piltdown n.). Cf. dawn man n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1912 A. Irving Let. 20 Dec. in F. Spencer Piltdown Papers 1908–1955 (1990) 44 Do you—admitting Werth's conclusions as to H. heidelbergensis—take the Mindel-Riss Interglacial period for the time of the Eoanthropus? 1913 A. S. Woodward in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 69 135 The facial parts of the skull..differed..from those of any typically human skull. I therefore propose that the Piltdown specimen be regarded as the type of a new genus of the family Hominidæ, to be named Eoanthropus. 1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. i. 28 Two other archaic human or ‘sub-human’ supposed genera—namely, Pithecanthropus of Java, and Eoanthropus of Piltdown, England—each..seemed in some respects morphologically intermediate between modern man and modern apes. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Feb. 23/1 The fake..was not in fact a half-million-year-old human ancestor, Eoanthropus , ‘dawn man’, but a crude amalgam of a medieval human brain case with an orangutan jaw of the same age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1912 |
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