Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Java the People's Council ordered watch kept on the activities of two Nazi newspapers in Batavia, and in Semarang a committee of "action against internal enemies" began military training. Of the 32,000 foreigners in The Netherlands East Indies, 7,300 are Germans, 7,200 Japanese...
...charge of the Choukoutien site (where digging has been seriously interfered with by the Sino-Japanese war) is an expatriate German Jew, Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Rockefeller-endowed Peiping Union Medical College. No. 1 man in Java is an expatriate German Gentile, Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Of late these earnest anthropologists have shown an increasing interest in each other's doings, and have tended to ignore the heterodox mutterings of old Dr. Dubois...
...Koenigswald found a second Pithecanthropus skull in Java, resembling the Dubois skull "as closely as one egg another." He discovered a third in 1938, a fourth in 1939, including the first good piece of an upper jawbone. Now that several good specimens of each ancient type were available, Weidenreich and Koenigswald got together and wrote a joint article for the British journal Nature, which last week reached the eager hands of U. S. anthropologists...
...scientists found some differences in the Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus skull shapes, but also some exact resemblances, even in minor structural details. Peking Man's molar and premolar teeth are more primitive, but Java Man has a wide gap between his canines and incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their...
Koenigswald and Weidenreich agree that the Java "ape man" as well as the Peking man is definitely human, and that the Peking Man specimens are probably older chronologically (from geological evidence). It remains uncertain which of the two is the more primitive from the point of view of evolution. That question may be answered if, on some happy day, anthropologists stumble on a common Pliocene Age ancestor of China's and Java...