Africanthropus

noun

Af·​ri·​can·​thro·​pus

ˌa-frə-ˈkan(t)-thrə-pəs,

-ˌkan-ˈthrō-pəs

in former classifications

: a genus of extinct Pleistocene hominids known from several skull fragments found near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania and now typically regarded as an early type of Homo sapiens

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Africa + -anthropus (as in Pithecanthropus)

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

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