Where was the first fossil 'Homo Erectus' found?
Homo erectus "Homo neanderthalensis" in 1856; see List of human evolution fossils). The Java fossil from Indonesia aroused much public interest. It was dubbed by the popular press as "Java Man"; but few scientists accepted Dubois' argument that his fossil was the transitional form—the so-called "missing link"—between humans and nonhuman apes. Most of the spectacular discoveries of "H. erectus" next took place at the Zhoukoudian Project, now known as the "Peking Man" site, in Zhoukoudian, China. This site was first discovered by Johan Gunnar Andersson in 1921 and was first excavated in 1921, and produced two human teeth. Davidson Black's initial description
Homo erectus a genus of fossil chimpanzees as "Anthropopithecus erectus", then the following year assigned his species to a new genus as "Pithecanthropus erectus" (the genus name had been coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1868 for the hypothetical link between humans and fossil Apes)—from the Greek πίθηκος,"píthēkos" "ape", and ἄνθρωπος "ánthrōpos" "human"—based on the proposal that the femur suggested that the creature had been bipedal, like "Homo sapiens". Dubois' 1891 find was the first fossil of a "Homo"-species (or any hominin species) found as result of a directed expedition and search (the first recognized human fossil had been the circumstantial discovery of