The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial Indonesia. The fossils were the first to show links between apes and humans. The ...
Decades after the ground-breaking find that changed humankind’s understanding of evolution, Homo erectus, popularly known as Java Man, has finally flown home to Indonesia, where it first emerged. The ...
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