Anthropopithecus

But more prominent of all was the thick ridge of the bone above the eyes, a massive brow ridge.

At first, Dubois considered the fossil to be more ape-like, so he called it Anthropopithecus, the man ape.

By 1894, however, he realized that the brain of Trinil 2 would have been larger than he had originally estimated.

Perhaps this was transitional from between apes and humans after all, and in Dubois' imagination, something that's similar to an upright walking gibbon.

Uh, I haven't seen any proposals that have suggested that yet, but it's gonna probably come out there.

The other option is to accept the fact that maybe something like Homo habilis or Homo rudolfensis is actually the, the initial, uh, disperser out of Africa and then into Asia.

So just like Eugene Dubois and Anthropopithecus, the history of humans in Asia continues to be rewritten, revised, and expanded.

But there's more to this story.

Dubois renamed this fossil collection as Pythocanthropus erectus.

Pythocanthropus is similar to Anthropopithecus in that it is the same two elements, Pythicus meaning ape and Anthropus meaning human.

The former name Anthropopithecus meaning human ape and the revised Pythocanthropus meaning ape man.

Pythocanthropus was previously used as the name of the undiscovered missing link.

Now Dubois decided that it was time to use it and he championed himself as the man to solve the mystery.