pithekos

Updated: May 26, 2025

His language has died with him, and he can render no account of himself. We can only regard him specifically as Homo Anthropos, a creature of bigger brain than his congener Homo Pithekos, and of vastly greater promise. But this, we say, is physical science, and not history.

John Fiske - Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology