Although it is a giant ape, Gigantopithecus is of no comfort to creationists trying to show the Peking Man was an ape. Its jaw is far too large to be mistaken for that of Peking Man.
The Gigantopithecus home page, by Eric Pettifor
The Ape that was, by Russell Ciochon
For more information, read "Other Origins: the Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory", by Russell Ciochon, John Olsen and Jamie James (1990).
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