單詞
pithecanthropus
[,piθik?n'θr?up?s]
基本信息
- n. 猿人屬；爪哇直立猿人
英文詞源
- pithecanthropus (n.)
- genus of extinct primates, 1895, from Modern Latin, literally "monkey-man," from Greek pithekos "ape" + anthropos "man" (see anthropo-). Coined 1868 by Haeckel as a name for a hypothetical link between apes and men (attested in English in this sense from 1876); applied by Dr. Eugène Dubois (1858-1940), physician of the Dutch army in Java, to remains he found there in 1891.
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