English Dictionary

pithecanthropoid

noun

One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.

The pithecanthropoid is an extinct hominin species.

意味（1）

One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.

And about 40,000 generations separate the australopithecines from their successors, the pithecanthropoids, whom we think of as the first animals that indisputably must be classed as men.