In 1893, Dutch paleontologist Eugene Dubois set out to prove Charles Darwin’s theory ... His findings were the first scientifically reported discovery of Homo erectus, widely regarded as a direct ...

Homo erectus, one of our ancestors in the line of human evolution, existed for approximately 1.8 million years. They were the ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors ... and the first set of H. erectus fossils was found by Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois on Java, enshrined in ...

Homo erectus was first discovered in Java, Indonesia and then China – these are the famous "Java Man" and "Peking Man" fossils. Eugène Dubois' 1891 discovery on Java (originally called ...

EUGENE DUBOIS who, exactly half a century ago ... between ape to man and to which he gave the name Pithecanthropus erectus, died at his home in Haarlem, Holland, on December 16, 1940.

"Homo erectus spanned a large [temporal] and geographic ... erectus fossil found was a 1-million-year-old skull discovered by Dutch surgeon Eugene Dubois in Indonesia in 1891.

The first evidence of Homo erectus was discovered by Eugène Dubois in 1891, at Trinil in Java, Indonesia. The species lived between 1.9 million and 140,000 years ago and migrated from its origins ...

Homo erectus, or Upright Man, spread from Africa to Asia and it was on the Island of Java that fossilised remains were found in 1891 in an expedition led by Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois.

On the banks of the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, 19th-century physician Eugene Dubois uncovered an astounding ... Man,” better known today as Homo erectus. Dated to between a million and ...

A new discovery sheds an entirely new light on the way we understand the homo erectus’ psyche ... 1890s by Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois. But wasn’t until recent years that ...

The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as tools, a new study finds. Researchers in Java, Indonesia ...

In 1893, Dutch paleontologist Eugene Dubois set out to prove Charles Darwin’s theory ... His findings were the first scientifically reported discovery of Homo erectus, widely regarded as a direct ...