Teuku Jacob
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1929 – 2007
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Who was Teuku Jacob?
Teuku Jacob was an Indonesian paleoanthropologist. As a student of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in the 1950s, Jacob discovered and studied numerous specimens of Homo erectus. He came to international prominence as a vocal critic of scientists who believed remains discovered in Flores belonged to a new species in the genus Homo, Homo floresiensis.
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- Born
- Dec 6, 1929
Indonesia - Education
- Utrecht University
- Died
- Oct 17, 2007
Yogyakarta
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on July 23, 2013
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