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Definition of: Zinjanthropus
(zin·jan′thrə·pəs) noun
Scientific name of a supposed forerunner of modern man, the evidence consisting of the remains of a skull found in East Africa and thought to be nearly two million years old. [<NL <Arabic Zinj eastern Africa + Gk. anthrōpos man]
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