A restoration of the skull of "Pithecanthropus" erectus by Manonvrier. "Pithecanthropus" erectus, described by the Dutch anatomist Eugene Dubois, was an immediate sensation. Known from a skullcap, a ...

Pithecanthropus Erectus was Charles Mingus's breakthrough as a leader and composer. The year was 1956. The defining moment was framed in no less than the historic Atlantic Studios in New York City, ...

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Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this site. Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found – half of ...

As Harvard’s witty Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton once remarked, “There are not enough fossil men to go around among the physical anthropolo-gists.” Hence the students of early human types must ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You'd see a certain "human-ness" in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be ...

Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Archaeological discoveries in East Asia over the last decade or so have dramatically rewritten our understanding of human evolution ...

THE remarkable advance made by biology during the last twenty years in the study of the Tertiary mammalia, must strike even the most casual onlooker. It is not merely that an exact knowledge has been ...

IN the report on the scientific meeting of the Royal Dublin Society on November 20, in NATURE of December 5, 1895, it is stated that I placed Pithecanthropus in the genealogical tree, drawn by Prof.