Peking Man

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Peking Man^¹

proper noun Peking man

A long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric China.
Similar: Homo erectus pekinensis, Sinanthropus pekinensis

Peking man^²

proper noun

Alternative letter-case form of Peking Man Julian Huxley coined the term “transhumanism” in 1957, when he wrote that in the near future, “the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man.”⁵

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name Homo erectus pekinensis

日本語	北京原人 Pekin genjin
中文	北京人 Běijīngrén, 北京猿人 Běijīng yuánrén
Deutsch	Peking-Mensch
Italiano	uomo di Pechino
Русский	сина́нтроп sinántrop

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@misc{peking_man_2026,
  title = {Peking Man},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peking%20man},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}