Eoanthropus

Translingual

Etymology

From English eo- (“dawn”) + anthropo- (“man”) + Latin -us. From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”).

Proper noun

Eoanthropus m

(taxonomy, fraud, obsolete) A genus proposed for the Piltdown Man, a 20th-century hoax fossil.

Derived terms

Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown Man)

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