| 单词 | nutcracker man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNutcracker Man Nutcracker Man n. (a nickname for) an East African fossil hominid, Australopithecus boisei, with massive jaws and powerful premolar teeth, which was the maker of the oldest stone tools known, esp. the specimen discovered by Mary Leakey at Olduvai, Tanzania, in 1959 (cf. Zinjanthropus n.).Similar remains, including the characteristic large premolar teeth, have also been found in South Africa. 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 1959 Times 4 Sept. 8/4 He [sc. L. S. B. Leakey] has named the species Zinjanthropus Boisei... The nickname given by Dr. Leakey to the world's oldest man is ‘Nutcracker Man’ because of the tremendously developed teeth. 1961 New Scientist 26 Oct. 221 Not only is Zinjanthropus or Nutcracker Man ‘unquestionably’ human but some of his fairly distant ancestors were human as well. 1972 S. Cupitt tr. H. Wendt From Ape to Adam iv. 228 He [sc. Robert Broom] found the remains of an australopithecine equipped with a particularly powerful jaw and truly nutcracker-like teeth... These ‘Nutcracker men’ even had a small sagittal crest on their skulls. 1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones v. 83 Journalists called it Nutcracker Man, because of its enormous jaws and teeth. < as lemmas |
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