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| Pe·king man |
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extinct human species: the fossilized remains of an extinct human species that lived 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, originally classified as Pithecanthropus and now regarded as a subspecies of Homo erectus
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| [Early 20th century. After Peking, because discovered in China] |
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