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

palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. As well as his work on

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

s and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of

Peking Man Peking Man (''Homo erectus pekinensis'') is a subspecies of '' H. erectus'' which inhabited the Zhoukoudian Cave of northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. The first fossil, a tooth, was discovered in 1921, and the Zhoukoudian Cave has ...

''(Sinanthropus pekinensis)''. In the 1950s, the scientific designation of

was changed when the hominid was generally decided to be a ''

Homo erectus ''Homo erectus'' (; meaning " upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago. Several human species, such as ''H. heidelbergensis'' and ''H. antecessor' ...

''.

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*http://runeberg.org/vemardet/1969/0137.html {{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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