Word: pithecanthropus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the Japanese took Java in 1942. But Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, piecing together what he had learned of Koenigswald's findings, reported them in Science. He pronounced the discovery the most important in anthropology since Eugene Dubois dug up Pithecanthropus erectus, the "missing link" between men and apes, in Java...
Koenigswald first found a big jawbone which looked more human than Pithecanthropus', but was so massive that he thought it could not possibly...
Died. Professor Eugene Dubois, 82, Dutch anthropologist who in 1891 found the first skull of the Java ape man, concluded he had discovered the "missing link," called it Pithecanthropus erectus; in Haelen, Belgium. Dr. Dubois's find started the '905' hottest scientific controversy, from which, for reasons of piety, he suddenly withdrew, locking up his fossils from the world's sight until 1926. Thereafter, despite important new evidence, he held that Java Man was no more than an early...
...Koenigswald found a second Pithecanthropus skull in Java, resembling the Dubois skull "as closely as one egg another." He discovered a third in 1938, a fourth in 1939, including the first good piece of an upper jawbone. Now that several good specimens of each ancient type were available, Weidenreich and Koenigswald got together and wrote a joint article for the British journal Nature, which last week reached the eager hands of U. S. anthropologists...
...scientists found some differences in the Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus skull shapes, but also some exact resemblances, even in minor structural details. Peking Man's molar and premolar teeth are more primitive, but Java Man has a wide gap between his canines and incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their...