Java man (redirected from Pithecanthropus)

Java man: see Homo erectus.

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Java man

Common name of fossilized Homo erectus remains found in 1891 at Trinil, Java. The remains, a skullcap and thighbone, represent the first known fossils of H. erectus (though originally assigned to Pithecanthropus erectus) and, together with numerous other finds along the Solo River, suggest that H. erectus was present in eastern Asia some 1,000,000 years ago and persisted there for at least 500,000 years and possibly as long as 800,000 years. Java man predates the finds at Zhoukoudian (Peking Man) in China and is considered somewhat more primitive.

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Java man [¦jäv·ə ¦man]

(paleontology)

An overspecialized, apelike form ofHomo sapiensfrom the middle Pleistocene having a small brain capacity, low cranial vault, and massive browridges.