How to Use Pithecanthropus in a Sentence?

How to use Pithecanthropus in a sentence
  1. The thigh-bone shows that Pithecanthropus could have stood and walked erect quite comfortably. ...
  2. First, that the skull-cap of Pithecanthropus is on all sides admitted to shew provision for powerful jaw-muscles.

What is Pithecanthropus?

1 capitalized. a : a hypothetical group of extinct primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes.

What is your understanding regarding Pithecanthropus?

An extinct hominin known from fossil remains discovered in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily intermediate between humans and nonhuman apes. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

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