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Peking man in British English
a type of early human (Homo erectus pekinensis) of the Middle Pleistocene age, known from fossil remains found near Beijing (Peking), China
the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
noun: an early type of human, Homo erectus, remains of which, of the Lower Palaeolithic age, were found in a cave near Peking (now Beijing), China, in 1927

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