By Bert Theunissen (auth.)
Although the identify Pithecanthropus is now seldom used, there are few who learn the beginning of our species who will fail to recognize the ancient position of the utilization and its organization with Eugene Dubois. over the past thirty or 40 years, Australopithecus and its African context has tended to attract awareness from the early paintings on our origins in Java. it's now more and more universal to listen to the time period 'pithecanthropine' used basically to point the Asian or some distance japanese examples of Homo erectus which, even if most likely derived from African ancestry, have a few positive factors that during the opinion of a few specialists may possibly justify their being thought of special. This dialogue isn't really in the pages that stick with which deal largely with the paintings of Eugene Dubois. He was once a unprecedented guy who did up to any individual due to the fact to place the nice antiquity of our ancestors firmly within the public area. Dubois turned concerned with the learn of human origins from a scientific and anatomical history as have many for the reason that. The jealousies pressures that we expect of as a phenomenon of the post-war years have been sincerely a significant component in figuring out the way forward for his career.
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Neither prehistoric human remains nor artefacts were ever found. 43 The Henkeput excavations provide the first - and as far as his Amsterdam period is concerned, the only - concrete evidence of Dubois' interest in the question of human ancestry. For the rest, the only thing of which we can be certain is that the problem fascinated him to the extent that, in 1887, after it had become obvious that his future did not lie with anatomy, he made the decision to devote himself entirely to the quest for the missing links between ape and Man.
On the basis of De Puydt's finds Dubois went to the vicinity of Rijckholt in 1886, to search for human and animal remains. Here he came across a geological 'organ pipe' known as the Henkeput and set up an investigation there in 1886 and 1887 during his vacations, assisted by the Count De Geloes of Eijsden, who owned the territory in which the Henkeput was located. The results were disappointing. Certainly large quantities of bones were found, including those of dogs, cattle, foxes, and deer, and there was a great number of human bones as well, but these were all of recent origin.
21 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 Haeckel, Systematische Phylogenie, 618. " Haeckel's biogenetic law "had the baneful effect of deluding biologists into believing they possessed a virtually infalliable [sic1key to the evolutionary ancestry ofliving organisms. " Erickson, Origins of Physical Anthropology, 66-123, passim. Oldroyd gives a concise explanation for the scant influence evolutionary theory had on the formation of anthropological theory in his Darwinian Impacts, 298-308. Erickson, Origins ofPhysical Anthropology, 66-99; Stocking, "The Persistence ofPolygenist Thought".