Zin|jan|thro|pus

Zin|jan|thro|pus «_ZIHN jan THROH puhs, zihn JAN thruh puhs», noun.

a manlike primate of the Pleistocene epoch, with a large, deep jaw and low forehead, whose remains were discovered in Tanganyika in 1959. He was nicknamed “the Nutcracker Man” because of his huge teeth. »

Leakey…has abandoned his earlier opinion that Zinjanthropus, a manlike creature whose bones he found in Africa in 1959, was on the line of evolution to man (Scientific American).

╂[< New Latin Zinjanthropus the genus name < zinj East Africa + Greek ánthrōpos man]