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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Harvard's witty Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton once remarked, "There are not enough fossil men to go around among the physical anthropolo-gists." Hence the students of early human types must make the most of what they have. Two famed fossils of which much has been made are Peking man or Sinanthropus, found in the caves at Choukoutien about a decade ago by a Chinese scientist named Pei Wen-chung; and the Java apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered on the banks of Java's Bengaman River in 1892, by Dutch Anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Both of these oldsters appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Thighbones | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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