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Eugène Dubois
Dutch paleoanthropologist (1858–1940)
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois | |
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| Born | (1858-01-28)January 28, 1858 Eijsden, Netherlands |
| Died | December 16, 1940(1940-12-16) (aged 82) Haelen, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleoanthropology, Geology |
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Eugène Dubois
From The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman
From The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman
Eugène Dubois came into the world at an appropriate time, given the mission he chose in life. He was born in 1858, in between the discovery of the first recognized Neanderthal fossil and Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species. In medical school, the young Dubois thrilled to a talk by visiting lecturer Ernst Haeckel, inventor of the term "missing link." Dubois vowed to prove Haeckel — and Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace — right by finding "the missing link" between apes and humans. In the early 1890s, he succeeded, yet the years before and the decades after were anything but easy.
Dubois's fascination with fossils started even before medical school. When he was still a boy, evolutionist Karl Vogt gave a lecture at a nearby town, sparking a local controversy. Dubois didn't get to attend the lecture, but he read all he could about the history life, and enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to study medicine.
His first paper discussed the structure of the larynx and suggested that the mammalian larynx evolved from gill cartilage of fishes. His advisor, however, surprised him by claiming the idea as hi
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Eugène Dubois
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutchpaleoanthropologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or 'Java Man'. Although hominidfossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.[1]
Hominid discoveries
[change | change source]Between 1887 and 1895, Dubois searched at potential sites near rivers and in caves, first on the island of Sumatra, then on the island of Java.
In 1891, Dubois discovered remains of what he described as "a species in between humans and apes". He called his finds Pithecanthropus erectus ("ape-human that stands upright") or Java Man. Today, they are classified as Homo erectus ("human that stands upright").[2] These were the first specimens of early hominid remains to be found outside of Africa or Europe.
In 1895, Dubois returned to Europe and toured the continent to convince his colleagues that he had indeed found a missing link. Although most anthropologists were intrigued, they did not always agree with Dubois' interpretations. After that, Dubois refused others access to his fossils, until he was forced to do so in 1