Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin (26 March 1898 – 28 November 1990) was a Swedish

palaeontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

. As well as his work on

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...

s and prehistoric

mammal A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the Class (biology), class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three ...

s, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ''(Sinanthropus pekinensis)''. In the 1950s, the scientific designation of Peking Man was changed when the hominid was generally decided to be a ''

Homo erectus ''Homo erectus'' ( ) is an extinction, extinct species of Homo, archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years. It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and human gait, gait, to early expansions of h ...

''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bohlin, Birger Swedish paleontologists Academic staff of Uppsala University 1898 births 1990 deaths Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala

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