A fossil hominid of the middle Pleistocene period, identified from remains found near Beijing in 1926.
北京猿人，北京人
A late form of Homo erectus (formerly Sinanthropus pekinensis), family Hominidae
Example sentencesExamples
He was a French geologist, anthropologist, philosopher, theologian and futurist who worked in China in the first half of the 20th century on evolution and on the discovery of Peking man.
Even more remarkable is the same enlarged speech area reported in one study of the left hemisphere of a skull of Peking man in Asia, our much more remote ancestor Homo erectus.
His beloved Peking man fossils were lost in the shuffle (although the plaster casts he had sent to New York survived).
Fossils of Java man and Peking man (aka Homo erectus) suggest these close evolutionary relatives were frequent victims of physical violence.
The discovery of the Peking Man fossils in China was a landmark discovery for archaeologists and anthropologists.
Definition of Peking man in US English:
Peking man
noun
A fossil hominid of the middle Pleistocene period, identified from remains found near Beijing in 1926.
北京猿人，北京人
A late form of Homo erectus (formerly Sinanthropus pekinensis), family Hominidae
Example sentencesExamples
His beloved Peking man fossils were lost in the shuffle (although the plaster casts he had sent to New York survived).
He was a French geologist, anthropologist, philosopher, theologian and futurist who worked in China in the first half of the 20th century on evolution and on the discovery of Peking man.
Even more remarkable is the same enlarged speech area reported in one study of the left hemisphere of a skull of Peking man in Asia, our much more remote ancestor Homo erectus.
Fossils of Java man and Peking man (aka Homo erectus) suggest these close evolutionary relatives were frequent victims of physical violence.
The discovery of the Peking Man fossils in China was a landmark discovery for archaeologists and anthropologists.