Dubois first gave them the name " Anthropopithecus ", or " man-ape ", as the chimpanzee was known at the time.
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Believing that the three fossils belonged to a single individual, " probably a very aged female ", Dubois renamed the specimen " Anthropopithecus erectus ".
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He chose this name because a similar tooth found in the Siwalik Hills in India in 1878 had been named " Anthropopithecus ", and because Dubois first assessed the cranium to have been about, closer to apes than to humans.
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Led by Eug�ne Dubois, the excavation team uncovered a tooth, a missing link " between apes and humans, Dubois gave the species the scientific name " Anthropopithecus erectus ", then later renamed it " Pithecanthropus erectus ".
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