Fragment of the manuscript in which Eugene Dubois introduces the name 'ape-man'. It was on display at the exhibition 'Dubois' in the National Museum of Natural History 'Naturalis' in Leiden, the Netherlands. Dutch anatomist Eugene Dubois had been fascinated with Charles Darwin's theories of evolution, so set out to find an early human.(1890s) He first described the species as Pithecanthropus erectus ("upright ape-man"), based on a calotte (skullcap) and a modern-looking femur found from the bank of the Solo River at Trinil, in central Java. (This species is now regarded as Homo erectus.) His find is commonly referred to as Java Man.
Photographed by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pmaas" title="User:Pmaas">Peter Maas</a>, manuscript written by Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois
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