Supported by the Dutch colonial government, he worked in Sumatra and Java from 1888 to 1895; during that time he found the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus near the village of Trinil.
Supported by the Dutch colonial government, he worked in Sumatra and Java from 1888 to 1895; during that time he found the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus near the village of Trinil. In his view, those remains provided the missing link between ape and man.  FTP, name this surgeon and anthropologist who earned worldwide fame through his discovery of the Java man, now known as Homo erectus.
Supported by the Dutch colonial government, he worked in Sumatra and Java from 1888 to 1895; during that time he found the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus near the village of Trinil.
Eugene {DuBois}