apeman

ape +‎ man

apeman (plural apemen)

1. A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     Only above the eyebrows, where the sloping forehead and low, curved skull of the ape-man were in sharp contrast to the broad brow and magnificent cranium of the European, could one see any marked difference.

• ape-person
• apewoman

• Penama, man ape