In Search of Homo Erectus

Eugène Dubois believed that he had found the missing link, a view he would continue to hold until his death. His quest had taken him to the island of Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies. He had found the first example of an extinct human that had lived significantly before Homo sapiens – but for all his protestations, it was not the missing link.Dubois's them-novel approach of seeking human o...