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In 1894, a Dutch anatomist brushed sediment from a riverbank in Java; it uncovered Java Man and reshaped the search for human origins

In the late nineteenth century, the search for humanity’s ancient ancestors was still driven more by speculation than by fossil evidence. That changed dramatically when Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois ...
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In 1894, Eugene Dubois brushing sediment in Java unexpectedly found Java Man that still shapes human origins debates

In 1894, a Dutch scientist, Eugène Dubois, was digging on the serene banks of the Solo River in Java, Indonesia. In his search for evidence about human origins, he found a few fossil remains. Dubois ...