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...modern man. Then in 1856, a similar skull, unearthed in the Neander Valley outside the German city of D?sseldorf, showed that at least one of man's probable ancestors (later named Neanderthal man) had a low, sloping forehead, a receding chin, and thick ridges over his eye sockets. Java man, discovered by a Dutch doctor who found a skullcap, or cranium, in 1891 and a thighbone in 1892, was obviously an even earlier, less evolved specimen than Neanderthal. Teeth, a nearly complete skullcap and bone fragments discovered in a cave at Choukoutien, China, during the 1920s established the existence...
...kilometers (75 miles) north of Kimberley. Dart determined that the skull had come from a five-year-old primate (the order of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys) who had lived on the threshold of humanity. Still, he recognized that the creature was even more primitive than Java man. He named it Australopithecus africanus, or the southern ape of Africa. The skull displayed an odd blend of ape and human characteristics. Dart's creature clearly had a large, apelike face, but its teeth were proportioned like those of a modern man. Its brain, although far smaller than that...
...most significant, the creature had walked upright. Its foramen magnum, the hole through which the spinal cord enters the skull, was not in the rear of the skull as it is in an ape or any other animal that walks on all fours; as with Neanderthal. Peking and Java men, it was far enough forward in the skull to indicate that the spinal column was usually in a vertical position and that the young primate had been bipedal...
...Libby. This was followed by the invention of the potassium-argon method. Both gave scientists techniques by which they could accurately determine the age of the strata in which fossilized bones were found, and sometimes the age of the bones themselves. Using these new tools, they have determined that Java man and Peking man, now classified as Homo erectus, walked the earth more than 500,000 years...