Pithecanthropus

Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins, British science writer Roger Lewin suggests the tone was set by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois, who in the 1890s found remains of Pithecanthropus erectus) on the island of Java.

He described these theoretical remains in great detail and even named the as-yet unfound species, Pithecanthropus alalus, and instructed his students such as Richard and Oskar Hertwig to go and find it.

In 1894 he heard of Eugene Dubois ' discovery in Java of the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus (now known as Homo erectus ).

Pithecanthropus Erectus among other recordings The decade that followed is generally regarded as Mingus's most productive and fertile period.