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A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – an ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam. quotations examples
The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.
1983, Valjean McLenighan, China, A History to 1949, Chicago: Children's Press, page 10