Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Dr. Davidson Black, who was in charge of the Choukoutien site when the Sinanthropus find was made, noticed how much the skull resembled that of the Java Man. But for a long time the Dubois find remained the only known Pithecanthropus skull, and comparisons seemed dangerous on the basis of single samples. Subsequently, one Sinanthropus find after another was made at Choukoutien, and the old Peking Man's anatomy came to be fairly well known. Though definitely human, he was generally regarded as somewhat older than Pithecanthropus. This apparently irked Dr. Dubois. He dated his Pithecanthropus back into...