biography
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Dubois, (Marie) Eugène (François Thomas)
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pronunciation:
[dübwah]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1940)
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| biography:
| Palaeontologist, born in Eijsden, The Netherlands. He studied medicine in Amsterdam and taught there from 1899. His interest in the ‘missing link’ between the apes and man took him to Java in 1887, where in the 1890s he found the humanoid remains named as Pithecanthropus erectus (Java Man), which he claimed to be the missing link. His view was contested and ridiculed, but in the 1920s it eventually became widely accepted. |
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