Dubois Eugène
Du·bois
(do͞o-bwä′), Eugène 1858-1940. Dutch paleontologist. In 1891 he discovered fossil hominids that he named Pithecanthropus erectus (now called Homo erectus), regarded as an ancestor of Homo sapiens.
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