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Teuku Jacob

Indonesian paleoanthropologist (1929-2007)

  • Fame43.1
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Lived 1929–2007, aged 78Indonesia
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    1929–2007
    Aged 78
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Updated 2026-06-21

Teuku Jacob was an Indonesian paleoanthropologist. As a student of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in the 1950s, Jacob claimed to have discovered and studied numerous specimens of Homo erectus. He came to international prominence as a vocal critic of scientists who believed remains discovered in Flores belonged to a new species in the genus Homo, Homo floresiensis.

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