Background
Charles Darwin had argued that humanity evolved in Africa, because this is where great apes like gorillas and chimpanzees lived. Though Darwin's claims have since been vindicated by the

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More than 50 years after Dubois's find, Ralph von Koenigswaldrecollected that, "No other paleontological discovery has created such a sensation

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Date of the fossils
Dubois's complete collection of fossils were transferred between 1895 and 1900 to what is now known as the Naturalis, in Leiden in the Netherlands. The main fossil of Java Man, the skullcap cataloged as "Trinil 2", has been dated

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Java Man was about 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) tall and his thighbones show that he walked erectlike modern humans. The femur is thicker than that of a modern human, indicating he was engaging in a lot of running. The skull was characterized by thick bones and a

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• Anthropopithecus
• List of fossil sites (with link directory)
• Sundaland: Pleistocene Java was part of this large peninsula attached to the Asian

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• Boaz, Noel T.; Ciochon, Russell L. (2004), Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo Erectus, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-515291-3.

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H. erectus arrived in Eurasia approximately 1.8 million years ago, in an event considered to be the first African exodus. There is evidence that the Java population of H. erectus lived in an

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