Peking man

noun

1. the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China (now Beijing), in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.

Peking man

noun

1. an early type of man, Homo erectus, remains of which, of the Lower Palaeolithic age, were found in a cave near Peking (now Beijing), China, in 1927

Peking man

/ pē′kĭng′ /

1. See sinanthropus

Example Sentences

The animal was named to honor Davidson Black, the Canadian scientist who studied the early human ancestor known as Peking man.

From New York Times

Wu says that the H. sapiens-like features of the jawbone set it apart from those of other hominins from the Middle Pleistocene, including those of a 160,000-year-old Denisovan from Tibet and of the around 770,000-year-old remains known as Peking Man.

From Scientific American

Just four years earlier, researchers had found another humanlike skull, nicknamed Peking Man, near Beijing.

From New York Times

For example, a Swedish geologist turned archaeologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, guided the project that led to the discovery of the “Peking Man” fossils, in the 1920s, at the site of Zhoukoudian.

From Washington Post

Scientifically, de Chardin is best known for his analyses of “Peking Man,” an influential set of Chinese fossils that belonged to Homo erectus, an early forerunner of modern humans.

From National Geographic