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Vol 1 Ep 4 - Homo erectus

History of the World podcast

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Dubois's Peking Man Fossil

Eugene de bois was the man who discovered homo erectus to cana bo. In 18 95, he returned back to europe to promote his wonderful discovery and take his place at the fourth front of the paleo anthropological world. The reaction he received from the scientific world upon his return was not quite as he expected though. Some scientists thought that the fossil was too much like an ape to be the missing link. Others thought that it was too muchlike a human to be themissing there were even some who doubted du bois's integrity by questioning whether the three bones were even related to each other at all. This is not what dubois expected. As far as

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