| 11. | He called his finds " Pithecanthropus erectus " ( " ape-human that stands upright " ) or Java Man.
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| 12. | HISTORY : " Java Man " is believed to have lived on Indonesia's main island a half million years ago.
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| 13. | Dubois classified Java Man with Haeckel's " Pithecanthropus " label, though they were later reclassified as " Homo erectus ".
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| 14. | In " Java Man,"
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| 15. | In any case, the term itself is misleading, as any known transitional fossil, like Java Man, is no longer missing.
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| 16. | Ralph von Koenigswald first assigned Java Man to the Trinil Fauna, a faunal assemblage that he composed from several Javanese sites.
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| 17. | He was the author of an influential treatise on Java Man, it being a recent discovery by Eug�ne Dubois ( 1858-1940 ).
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| 18. | The teeth are more primitive than those of Homo erectus, the species to which the famous Java man and Peking man belong.
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| 19. | Java Man, were found between layers of volcanic debris in Java, Indonesia . and possibly until 200, 000 years ago in Indonesia.
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| 20. | Now believed to be between 2 and 3 million years old, the Taung Child predated Java Man by hundreds of thousands of years.
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