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des animaux d’un autre genre, des prĂ©curseurs de l’homme dans l’échelle des ĂȘtres, prĂ©curseurs auxquels j’ai donnĂ© le nom d’Anthropopithecus. Ainsi, par le seul raisonnement, solidement appuyĂ© sur des observations prĂ©cises, nous sommes arrivĂ©s Ă  dĂ©couvrir d’une maniĂšre certaine un ĂȘtre intermĂ©diaire entre les anthropoĂŻdes actuels et l’homme
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Nous sommes donc forcĂ©ment conduits Ă  admettre, par une dĂ©duction logique tirĂ©e de l’observation directe des faits, que les animaux intelligents qui savaient faire du feu et tailler des pierres Ă  l’époque tertiaire, n’étaient pas des hommes dans l’acception gĂ©ologique et palĂ©ontologique du mot, mais
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He slept well, did General MacKackmale, with both eyes shut, though longer than was permitted by regulations. With his long arms, his round eyes deeply set under their beetling brows, his face embellished with a stubbly beard, his grimaces, his semi-human gestures, the extraordinary jutting-out of
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We are therefore forced to admit, as a consequence of a logical deduction drawn from the direct observation of the facts, that intelligent animals who knew how to make fire and cut stones in the Tertiary Period, were not men in the geological and paleontological sense of the word, but animals of
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came to mean something like "the upright chimpanzee", or "the chimpanzee standing up". However, a year later, in 1893, Dubois considered that some anatomical characters proper to humans made necessary the attribution of these remains to a genus different than
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Il dormait bien, le gĂ©nĂ©ral Mac Kackmale, sur ses deux oreilles, plus longues que ne le comporte l’ordonnance. Avec ses bras dĂ©mesurĂ©s, ses yeux ronds, enfoncĂ©s sous de rudes sourcils, sa face encadrĂ©e d’une barbe rĂȘche, sa physionomie grimaçante, ses gestes
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his jaw, he was remarkably ugly, even for an English general. Something of a monkey but an excellent soldier nevertheless, in spite of his apelike appearance.
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was dropped. Yet the chimpanzee meaning of the genus persisted throughout the 19th century, even to the point of being a genus name attributed to
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is scientifically obsolete in the present day but did become widespread in popular culture, mainly in
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English author George C Foster makes use of both Pithecanthropus (aka Java Man) and
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was still being used by zoologists as the genus name of chimpanzees, so Dubois'
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was translated in 1959 by Idrisyn Oliver Evans as "his semi-human gestures".
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had already been attributed to chimpanzees in 1816 by the German naturalist
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This old jar containing a chimpanzee brain is currently preserved in the
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definitely lost its validity in 1895, becoming from that date a
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and that supposedly, following De Mortillet's theory, produced
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According to the current international consensus, the genus
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had already been abandoned since 1895 at the earliest.
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was established by De Blainville in 1839, the British
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Translated from the French by Idrisyn Oliver Evans –
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Foster" 813: 44: 657: 283:another kind, precursors of Man in the 35:. For the Marvel Comics character, see 20:. For Pithecanthropus rudolfensis, see 986: 803:Le PrĂ©historique, antiquitĂ© de l'homme 688:) and the bonobo or dwarf chimpanzee ( 263:Le PrĂ©historique, antiquitĂ© de l'homme 105:was originally coined to describe the 462: 287:, precursors to whom I gave the name 798:PĂŽle international de la PrĂ©histoire 770: 786:Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 384:, by Dutch physician and anatomist 24:. For Pithecanthropus erectus, see 13: 937: 171:Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville 14: 1015: 965: 409:(1893 paper, published in 1894). 829:Le PrĂ©historique, antiquitĂ© de l 267:The Prehistoric: Man's Antiquity 959:Scripta Geologic, Special Issue 910: 710: 318:produced by natural phenomena ( 215:(1779–1851). 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Index

Ernst Haeckel
Homo rudolfensis
Java Man
apeman
Man-Ape

Science Museum of London
binomial name
Pan troglodytes
Blainville
Haeckel
chimpanzees
archaic humans
chimpanzee
junior synonym
Pan
Java Man
missing link
Homo erectus
Homo
genus
zoologist
anatomist
Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
chimpanzee
surgeon
naturalist
John Bland-Sutton
species
common chimpanzee

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