Lexicographical Neighbors of Pithecanthropi
Literary usage of Pithecanthropi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"TWENTY-FOURTH ANCESTRAL STAGE : Ape-like Men (pithecanthropi). ... These Ape-like
men, or pithecanthropi, very probably existed towards the end of the ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"As to the worn-out idea of a God, or Creator of the world, it is so utterly absurd
that it can only have arisen in the minds of the pithecanthropi, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The assumed human apes (pithecanthropi) have so far been found neither in a living
nor in a fossil condition. Neither the Neanderthal skull, nor the Engis ..."
4. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"... to the pithecanthropi, and lastly, to man. We know the paths [that life has
traveled. We know the footsteps of advance. They have been traced. ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"... with an average Irish cranium, the Neanderthal and the Spy (No. 2) cranium,
and the skull of a young gorilla. The '* pithecanthropi^ erectus : eine ..."
6. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace=book ... for the Use of by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"... in Man Past and Present, 3), regard the pithecanthropi«) as a "missing link."
But "Nature" regards it as the remains of a human ..."
7. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... the Island of Java, the bones of a being which he considers as intermediate
between man and the anthropoid apes, and which he has called pithecanthropi! ..."
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