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Peking Man > Homo erectus yuanmouensis

--Shizhao 00:26, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)

several new excavation in or near the dragon bones caves site have yielded comparable fossils after ww2. i think. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.56.37.222 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] merge Sinanthropus here discussion

[edit] support

• Nowimnthing 17:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC) Sinanthropus is a minor stub, should be no problem to merge.
• UtherSRG (talk) 18:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
• It's so small, there's no point maintaining it as a separate article when it'll be easier to take the text, slip it into Peking Man and have this one redirect.^v^ [[User:orngjce223|my home page[[Talk:orngjce223|my talk page]]]] 03:17, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] oppose

According to historian Tore Frängsmyr's book "Pekingmänniskan. En historia utan slut" ["Peking man. A never-ending history"] (Stockholm, 2006), Zdansky found one tooth on-site in 1921, recognized them as anthropoic, and took them with him along with the other stuff he'd excavated (which was in accordance with the agreement he had with Andersson, that he'd retain the right to work on what he'd excavated). Somtime between 1923-1926, working on the material he'd brought with him back to Uppsala, he discovered a second tooth. His findings, which did not include daring conclusions about what sort of human the teeth had belonged to, were published in 1926. Birger Bohlin was offered to head further excavations of the cave after the Rockefeller foundation had donated money for such work, and after Zdnasky had decline to take the job. In October 1927, Bohlin discovered a tooth from a hominid, and brought it with him to Davidson Black in Beijing, and Black concluded based on this tooth and Zdansky's two teeth that there really was a "Peking Man".

Being inexperienced in writing for Wikipedia, I didn't want to start messing with the text in the article, but I still wanted to offer these little factoids in the hope that they might be of use.

83.226.135.131 (talk) 05:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)