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PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS (Erect Ape-Man) , the name given by Dr Eugene
Dubois
part
opinion adverse to Dr Dubois
opinion is that the bones are human. They are not held to represent what has been called " the missing link," bridging over the gulf between man and the apes; but almost all authorities are agreed that they constitute a further link in the chain, bringing man nearer his Simian prototype. L. Manouvrier concludes that Homo javanensis walked erect, was of about medium height, and was a true precursor, possibly a direct ancestor, of man. He calls attention to the fact that the cranial capacity decreases in proportion to the antiquity of the human skulls found, and that the pithecanthropus skull has a capacity of from goo to rood cc.that is, " stands at the level of the smallest which have been occasionally found amongst the reputedly lowest savage peoples."See Dubois, Pithecanthropus erectus (Batavia, 1894) ; a later paper read by Dr Dubois before the Berlin Anthropological Society was translated in the Smithsonian Report for 1898. Also a paper read by Dr D. J. Cunningham before the Royal Dublin Society, January 23, 1895 (reported in Nature, February 28, 1895); O. C. Marsh,SiO2 Al203 Fe20a MgO CaO Na2O K20 H2O Meissen, Saxony . 72.42 11.26 0.75 0.28 1.35 2.86 3.8o 7.64 Corriegills, Arran 72.07 11.26 3.24 tr. 1.53 o61 5.61 545 Scuir of Eigg, Scotland
American Journ. of Science (June 1896); " Le Pithecanthropus et l'origine de l'homme," in Bull . de la soc. d'anthrop. de Paris (1896), pp. 460-67 ; L. Manouvrier, " Discussion du pithecanthropus erectus comme precurseur de 1'homme," in Bull . soc. d'anthrop. de Paris (1895), pp. 1347 and 216220: L. Manouvrier, Bull. soc. d'anthrop. (1896), p. 419 sqq. ; " The Trinil Femur contrasted with the Femora of various savage and civilized races," in Journal of Anat. and Physiol. (1896), xxxi. r seq.; Virchow, " Ober den Pithecanthropus erectus Dubois " in Zeitschrift f. Ethnologie (1895), pp. 336, 435, 648.End of Article: PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS (Erect Ape-Man) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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