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...discoverer was Dr. R. von Koenigswald of The Netherlands Indies Geological Survey. No word has come from or of him since the Japanese took Java in 1942. But Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, piecing together what he had learned of Koenigswald's findings, reported them in Science. He pronounced the discovery the most important in anthropology since Eugene Dubois dug up Pithecanthropus erectus, the "missing link" between men and apes, in Java...
...Koenigswald first found a big jawbone which looked more human than Pithecanthropus', but was so massive that he thought it could not possibly...
Then he found a still larger jaw, the biggest ever discovered, which was unmistakably human. It was apparently the most primitive truly human fossil ever discovered. Koenigswald named it Meganthropus palaeojavanicus (Big Man of Ancient Java). Meganthropus seemed to have been about the size of a big male gorilla...
...Koenigswald's crowning find dwarfed even Meganthropus. Prowling in South China apothecaries' shops, whose drawers are often full of fossils, he found three astounding fossil teeth. They were six times as big as a modern man's molars, twice as big as a gorilla's. Koenigswald thought they were an ape's. But Weidenreich is sure, from the pattern of their "biting surfaces, that they are definitely human. He has named this man monster, who was certainly much larger than a gorilla, Gigantanthropus...
...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...