Pithecanthropus

How To Use Pithecanthropus In A Sentence

• 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. Tarzan the Terrible
• 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. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
• Everything about Pithecanthropus alalus, or the ‘speechless apeman’ was the product of Haeckel's imagination.
• Tales like "The Devil's Asteroid" and "Pithecanthropus Rejecticus" have been reprinted but there are many others that deserve to be collected and read again. The Other Manly Wade Wellman
• This ‘Java or Solo man’ was named Pithecanthropus erectus, which means ‘upright ape man’.
• ‘On the gibbon-like appearance of Pithecanthropus erectus’ THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• 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. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
• As I said, both the Java and Peking specimens of Pithecanthropus have now been shown to be quite young, less than a million years old. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• Creationists have from time to time used as a political weapon the allegation that Dubois backed off from his claim that Pithecanthropus was an intermediate ape-man. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• Homo erectus was then known only from fossils discovered in Java in the 1890s—although the remains a jawbone, skullcap, thighbone, and two teeth were initially classified as Pithecanthropus erectus, or the “erect ape man.” Ancestral Passions