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...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 to have lived at the beginning of the Glacial Period-roughly 1,000,000 years...

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

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