An anatomy assistant under the Dutch morphologist Max Furbringer, Eugène Dubois knew little of the science of paleoanthropology --the study of the fossil remains of humankind's ancestors--when,...
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Eugène Dubois' unearthing of Java man, near the village of Trinil on Java in 1892, was the first fossil discovery of Homo erectus, a direct ancestor of modern man, and the first deliberate sear...
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