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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

DUBOIS, Marie Eugène François Thomas (1858 – 1940)

1858 – 1940

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1894

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Pithecanthropus erectus. Eine menschenähnliche Uebergangsform aus Java.

DUBOIS, Marie Eugène François Thomas (1858 – 1940)

Privately issued first report on Homo erectus. In 1891 Dubois discovered remains of what he described as "a species in between humans and apes" at Trinil, Java. He called his finds Pithecanthropus erectus ("ape-human …