Show Pi Pithecanthropus Is Now Nov Considered to Have Been an Ape Ape Man of Java Was Not Really Reany a Man Ilion PITHECANTHROPUS A Javas Java's famous man ape-man has been demoted to a place definitely among the apes in inthe inthe inthe the opinion of his scientific discoverer Dr Eugene Dubois Du- Du bois He lie was a giant gibbon- gibbon like creature and no man at all Evidence Recently found additional thighbones s which indicate that Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus was erectus only occasionally and when on uneven ground habitually went stooped over like a modern gibbon indications I in jaw and skull that his head was attached to the spine well aft aft- fashion ape-fashion instead o of set seton on squarely at its middle man-fashion man The whole Pithecanthropus question question question ques ques- tion was opened up for re discus sion according to the Dutch anthropologist anthropologist an an- Dr W. W P. P Van Stein by the discovery a little littleover littleover littleover over a year ago of a childs child's skull at in Java dated as Early Ice age by its associated fos fos- sils The skull is stated to belong somewhere in the line of ol human de de- de- de It may have been an infant Pithecanthropus But the previously known adult Pithecanthropus has always been regarded as belonging to the Middle Mid Mid- Middle Iid- Iid dle dIe Ice age and Dr regards regards regards re re- re- re gards it as quite unlikely that this species began at the early time represented represented represented rep rep- resented b by the infant skull and survived when all ll other Early Ice age mammal species species' species perished Just an n Ice Age Gibbon Dr suggests that the skull of Pithecanthropus may be of Early Ice age date too it was found by an army sergeant and site data are quite lacking IncIting The thighbone thigh thighbone thighbone bone may not belong with the skull at all but to the primitive but definitely human type discovered in ina a Late Ice age deposit at Solo in Java and called Homo With his skull chased back to the Early Ice age to go with the Mod Mod- infant skull and his thighbone thighbone thighbone thigh thigh- bone appropriated by the com later com ing Solo Man poor Pithecanthropus seems rather pushed out on a limb away from the main trunk of human descent man Ape-man no longer just justa a plain ape though a big one with witha a big brain and so his discoverer leaves him Gain for the Solo Man 1 But the position of Solo Man with his cubic centimeter brain is much magnified With another primitive Java man Homo kens is and nd the strange Rhodesian Man of or Africa Dr Dubois regards him as representative of the most primitive fossil human type precursor precursor precursor pre pre- cursor to the present-day present Australian race most primitive existing human human human hu hu- hu- hu man type The Dutch anthropologist characterizes characterizes characterizes charac charac- Solo and Rhodesian as the most important of all known fossil men as representing the most primitive type of Homo sapiens |