He even formally named this missing link " Pithecanthropus alalus ", translated as " ape man without speech ."
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His first sketch ( in the 1860s ) of his famous tree of life shows " Pithecanthropus alalus " as the ancestor of Homo sapiens.
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He described these theoretical remains in great detail and even named the as-yet unfound species, " Pithecanthropus alalus ", and instructed his students such as Richard and Oskar Hertwig to go and find it.