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  2. Java Man - Wikipedia

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    Java Man (Homo erectus erectus, formerly also Anthropopithecus erectus or Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java (Indonesia). Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,490,000 years old, it was, at the time of its discovery, the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remains the type ...

  3. Anthropopithecus - Wikipedia

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    Pithecanthropus is a genus that German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) had created in 1868. [1] Years later, in the 20th century, the German physician and paleoanthropologist Franz Weidenreich (1873-1948) compared in detail the characters of Dubois' Java Man, then named Pithecanthropus erectus , with the characters of the Peking Man , then ...

  4. Homo erectus - Wikipedia

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    A 400 kya H. erectus hyoid bone from Castel di Guido, Italy, is bar-shaped—more similar to that of other Homo than to that of non-human apes and Australopithecus—but is devoid of muscle impressions, has a shield-shaped body, and is implied to have had reduced greater horns, meaning H. erectus lacked a humanlike vocal apparatus and thus ...

  5. Missing link (human evolution) - Wikipedia

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    Haeckel claimed that human evolution occurred in 24 stages and that the 23rd stage was a theoretical missing link he named Pithecanthropus alalus ("ape-man lacking speech"). [9] Haeckel claimed the origin of humanity was to be found in Asia. He theorized that the missing link was to be found on the lost continent of Lemuria located in the ...

  6. Eugène Dubois - Wikipedia

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    Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (French: [øʒɛn dybwɑ]; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man".

  7. Solo Man - Wikipedia

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    Solo Man (Homo erectus soloensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus that lived along the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, about 117,000 to 108,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene. This population is the last known record of the species.

  8. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald - Wikipedia

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    During the war years, Weidenreich's description of Sinanthropus was published. In a borrowed office at the American Museum of Natural History, Weidenreich added to their earlier work and reviewed the fossil record of human evolution, merging Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus into a new taxon, Homo erectus, with various geographic sub-species. He ...

  9. Trinil - Wikipedia

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    The Homo erectus "Java Man" in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands. Trinil is a palaeoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in Ngawi Regency , East Java Province , Indonesia .