Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (born 1858)

Eugène Dubois

Dutch paleoanthropologist (1858–1940)

Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus, or "Java Man". Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon…