Eugène Dubois was the pioneer of human origins research in South‐East Asia, specifically on two of the islands, Sumatra and Java, now included in Indonesia. Dubois was a polymath, whose research interests embraced encephalization and hydrology as well as paleoanthropology. His interpretations of the hominin fossil evidence he collected, which he eventually assigned to Pithecanthropus erectus, changed over the years, and he evidently felt defensive about those interpretations, but in his 1894 paper he presents cogent reasons for his decision. The taxon he introduced is still recognized, and while it is no longer seen as “the” link between fossil apes and modern humans, it is currently one of the longest surviving hominin taxa.

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直立人的出生

尤金·杜波依斯（EugèneDubois）是东南亚人类起源研究的先驱，特别是在印度尼西亚已包括的苏门答腊岛和爪哇岛这两个岛上。Dubois是一位博学者，其研究兴趣包括脑病学，水文学以及古人类学。多年来，他对他所收集的人化石证据的解释（后来他最终分配给直立的人猿）改变了，显然他对这些解释感到防御，但他在1894年的论文中提出了做出这一决定的有力理由。他介绍的分类单元仍被认可，尽管不再被视为猿猴与现代人类之间的“纽带”，但它目前是生存时间最长的人种分类单元之一。