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| (Ma⋅rie) Eu⋅gène (Fran⋅çois Tho⋅mas) [ma-ree œ-zhen frahn-swa taw-mah] , 1858–1941, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist. |
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Dutch paleontologist who in 1891 discovered in Java a fossil hominid which he believed to be the so-called missing link between the apes and humans on the evolutionary ladder. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus, but it is now known as Homo erectus. |