Dubois' detailed 1894 description of P. erectus deserves its place in a survey of classic contributions to paleoanthropology.
Although we now think there are many links, and likely more than one chain, in the hominin clade, the evidence Dubois caused to be collected in Java in the 1890s was the first evidence of a long-lived lineage that likely made a significant contribution to the evolution of modern humans. Dubois' detailed 1894 description of P. erectus deserves its place in a survey of classic contributions to paleoanthropology.