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

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

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

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

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'' (; 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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