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Eugène Dubois
(28 Jan 1858 - 16 Dec 1940)
Dutch palaeoanthropologist, anatomist and geologist.
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Science Quotes by Eugène Dubois (1 quote)
The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans. Thus this ancient
— Eugène Dubois
Report of 1892, quoted in Pat Shipman, The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois (2001), 186.
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- 28 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Dubois's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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