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Died. Professor Eugene Dubois, 82, Dutch anthropologist who in 1891 found the first skull of the Java ape man, concluded he had discovered the "missing link," called it Pithecanthropus erectus; in Haelen, Belgium. Dr. Dubois's find started the '905' hottest scientific controversy, from which, for reasons of piety, he suddenly withdrew, locking up his fossils from the world's sight until 1926. Thereafter, despite important new evidence, he held that Java Man was no more than an early...
...most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 years. First Pithecanthropus relics were found in Java by a Dutchman, Eugene Dubois, in 1892. First good Sinanthropus specimen was discovered in the Choukoutien caves near Peking...
...taxonomy is always arbitrary because species, genera and families tend to merge into one another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
Pithecanthropus erectus, of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, who browsed on the island of Java during the early Pleistocene period (Ice Age), 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...
Terra of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences wirelessed from Java that he had found in Java and Burma crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part...