Although the name Pithecanthropus is now seldom used, there are few
who study the origin of our species who will fail to recognise the
historical place of the usage and its association with Eugene
Dubois. During the last thirty or forty years, Australopithecus and
its African context has tended to draw attention from the early
work on our origins in Java. It is now increasingly common to hear
the term 'pithecanthropine' used only to indicate the Asian or Far
Eastern examples of Homo erectus which, although probably derived
from African ancestry, have some features that in the opinion of
some experts may justify their being considered distinctive. This
discussion is not within the pages that follow which deal
extensively with the work of Eugene Dubois. He was an extraordinary
man who did as much as any person since to put the great antiquity
of our ancestors firmly in the public domain. Dubois became
involved with the study of human origins from a medical and
anatomical background as have many since. The jealousies and
professional pressures that we think of as a phenomenon of the
post-war years were clearly a major factor in deciding the future
of his career.
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