In 1894, he thus renamed it " Pithecanthropus erectus " ( " upright ape-man " ), borrowing the genus name " Pithecanthropus " from Ernst Haeckel, who had coined it a few years earlier to refer to a supposed " missing link " between apes and humans.
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In a borrowed office at the American Museum of Natural History, Weidenreich added to their earlier work and reviewed the fossil record of human evolution, merging " Sinanthropus " and " Pithecanthropus " into a new taxon, " Homo erectus ", with various geographic sub-species.
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Experimenting with collective improvisations and a repertory cast that included sax players Jackie McLean, John Handy, Booker Ervin and Roland Kirk, Mingus ranged from the eeks and squeaks of " Pithecanthropus " to the raucous incantations of " Eat That Chicken, " pushing the boundaries of the music as he went.
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Of particular note are his early Atlantic albums, such as " The Clown ", " Tijuana Moods ", and most notably " Pithecanthropus Erectus ", the title song of which contained one section that was freely improvised in a style unrelated to the song's melody or chordal structure.
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Perhaps it was the first film of a new type of hominid, quite unknown to science, in which case Roger Patterson deserves to rank with Dubois, the discoverer of " Pithecanthropus erectus ", or Raymond Dart of Johannesburg, the man who introduced the world to its immediate human ancestor, " Australopithecus africanus " ."
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This tune was also released on Hal Willner's tribute CD : " Weird Nightmare-Meditations on Mingus . " " Opus 3 " is based on the Mingus's 1957 composition " Pithecanthropus Erectus, " in which certain sections are played without key or meter restrictions . " Opus 4 " is a straight-ahead swinger that features Don Pullen playing a free solo part.
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While expanding his humorous horizons to fields like painting ( " Michelangelo Buonarroti / Carried his own personal potty / High up in the Sistine / To keep it pristine " ) and anthropology ( " Pithecanthropus, said Mrs . Erectus, / Your friends, the big apes, may reject us, / But I think it's time you began / To stand up and act like a man " ).
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Gleason writes in his 1985 book titled " A Survey of Old Testament Introduction " : " To revert to the problem of the Pithecanthropus, the Swanscombe man, the Neanderthal and all the rest ( possibly even the Cro-magnon man, who is apparently to be classed as Homo sapiens, but whose remains seem to date back at least to 20, 000 B . C . ) it seems best to regard these races as all prior to Adam s time, and not involved in the Adamic covenant.
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Elvis Costello has recorded " Hora Decubitus " ( from " Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus " ) on " My Flame Burns Blue " ( 2006 ) . " Better Git It in Your Soul " was covered by Davey Graham on his album " Folk, Blues, and Beyond . " Trumpeter Ron Miles performs a version of " Pithecanthropus Erectus " on his EP " Witness . " New York Ska Jazz Ensemble has done a cover of Mingus's " Haitian Fight Song ", as have the British folk rock group Pentangle and others.
