neanthropicadj.n.

1894 J. W. Dawson Meeting-place Geol. & Hist. i. 17 The modern, or anthropic [period], is..divisible into two sections—the early modern, or palanthropic,..sometimes called quaternary, or post-glacial, and which may coincide with the antediluvian period of human history; and the neanthropic, extending onward to the present time. [Note] I have preferred..to call the earlier races of men palaeocosmic and the later neocosmic,..while the periods to which they belong are respectively the Palanthropic and Neanthropic.

1916 G. Elliot Smith in Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 60 p. xlvi A Palæoanthropic Age..gave place..to a Neoanthropic Age, when men of the modern type..made their appearance.

1939 T. D. McCown & A. Keith Stone Age Mt. Carmel II. xxii. 362 In Neanderthal skulls the great wing and the orbital plate of the malar tend to be wide; in Neanthropic skulls they tend to be narrow.

1945 Sci. Monthly May 393/1 While certain characteristics suggest a modern Indian others are similar to those present in the more primitive forms of neoanthropic man found in America.

1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins xi. 175/1 The neanthropic (new man) line included fossils that were more or less modern throughout time.

1991 G. A. Clark Perspectives on Past 139 This postulates flake tool and core-biface traditions alternating with one another in direct linkage with distinct paleoanthropic and neanthropic lines of hominid evolution.