ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Transitional Fossil, Java Man, Neanderthal
27 May 2014
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Early studies of the distant past: the birth of research into the. We left off part i with the recognition among scientists that, since. Neandertals were too similar to us, there must be another missing link between us and the great apes. This idea of a missing link sparked a number of searches. *the most immediately successful was carried out by eugene. Dubois, a young anatomist from the netherlands, working in se asia. In 1891 on the island of java he found the remains of several hominins that he named pithecanthropus, which means monkey-like man". Dubois proclaimed to the scientific world that the missing link was found some were receptive to the idea, but most were not. They put these fossils on a separate branch from that leading to modern humans. Two of the most influential figures of this time (the late 1800s and early 1900s) were scottish anatomist, arthur keith, *and french anatomist, marcelin boule.
