Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus, or "Java Man". Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for hominid fossils.
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Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1858 to 1940 · aged 82
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