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Dubois and the Lost Link
Ujendobois returned to Europe in 1895 as the man who had solved the riddle. The reaction he received from the scientific world upon his return was not quite as 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 link. There were even some who doubted Dubois's integrity by questioning whether the three bones were even related to each other at all. As far as he was concerned he had solved the puzzle and if anyone didn't believe him then he would tell them again until they did. In 1950 both Uj endobois's Java man and the pe