
Taipeh (DreamLandLibrary) - Peking Man (Chinese: traditional Hanzi: Chinese: Běijīng Yuánrén), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus.
A group of fossil specimens were discovered in 1923-1927 during excavation at Zhoukoudian (Chou K'ou-tien) near Beijing (then called Peking), China.
These findings have been dated to around 500 thousand years ago, although further studies proposed the...