It is interesting to note that the find was not a complete specimen, as many are led to beleive, but consisted merely of a skullcap, a femur, and three teeth. A 342 page report written shortly after the finding has thrown much doubt upon the validity of this particular specimen. Despite this, the "Java man" is still found in many textbooks today.

A second "Java Man" was later discovered in the village of Sangiran, Central Java, 18km to the north of Solo. His remains, a skullcap of similar size to that found by Dubois, was discovered by Berlin-born paleontologist Dr GHR von Koenigswald in 1936, as a direct result of the excavations by Dubois in 1891.

Until older human remains were later discovered in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Dubois' and Koenigswald's discoveries were the oldest hominid remains ever found, and the first to support Charles Darwin's and Alfred Russell Wallace's theory of evolution.

Many scientists of the day even suggested that Dubois' Java Man might have been the so-called "missing link", yet due to 19th Century scepticism, this theory was never credited to Dubois.

The "missing link" is the creature that is supposed to provide the evolutionary connection between the anthropoid apes and modern man.

For more than 29 years, Dubois did not declareed to the scientific community that he had also found two human skulls in the same general location and level in a gravel place. These were the so-called Wadjak skulls. Many have said that this was because he knew it would detract from the willingness with which his ‘Java man’ find would be accepted as man’s ancestor. However, from his own writings and other sources, Dubois in fact had a doubtful nature, and even locked his ‘Java man’ find a way for years, even though many were convinced it was the ‘missing link’.

‘Java man’ has been renamed so as to now belong to the class of Homo erectus. However, readers should be aware that though there are really realistic specimens, which has been named Homo erectus there is no motive to believe that ‘Java man’ essentially even belonged to this class, nor had any objective survival at all.

Many creationists have claimed that Java Man, discovered by Eugene Dubois in 1893, was "bad science". Gish (1985) says that Dubois found two human skulls at nearby Wadjak at about the same level and had kept them top secret, that Dubois later determined Java Man was a giant gibbon, and that the bones do not come from the same human beings. Most people would find Gish's meaning of "nearby" amazing, the Wadjak skulls were found 65 miles (104 km) of mountainous countryside away from Java Man. likewise for "at around the same level": the Wadjak skulls were found in cave deposits in the mountains, while Java Man was found in river deposits in a flood plain (Fezer 1993). Nor is it true, as is often claimed, that Dubois kept the existence of the Wadjak skulls secret because knowledge of them would have disgraceed Java Man. Dubois briefly Explained the Wadjak skulls in three separate publications in 1890 and 1892. Despite being corrected on this in a debate in 1982 and in print (Brace 1986), Gish has continued to make this claim, even stating, despite not having apparently read Dubois' reports, that they did not mention the Wadjak skulls (Fezer 1993).

• Lubenow does recognized the existence of Dubois' papers, but argues that since they were technical reports not intended for the public or the scientific community
• Dubois was still guilty of hiding the existence of the Wadjak skulls.
• This is also incorrect; the journals in which Dubois published, although unclear, were distributed in Europe and America, and are part of the scientific literature.
• Based on his own theories about how brains had changed and wishful thinking.
• Dubois did claim that Java Man was "a gigantic genus allied to the gibbons", but this was not, as creationists mean, a withdrawal of his earlier claims that it was an intermediate between apes and humans.
• Dubois also pointed out that it was bipedal and that its brain size was "very much too large for an anthropoid ape"
• and he never stopped believing that he had found an ancestor of modern man (Theunissen 1989; Gould 1993; Lubenow 1992).
• Creationists are right about one thing. Most modern scientists agree that the femur is more modern than the skullcap, belonging to a modern human.
• Some of the teeth found nearby are now thought to be from an orang-utan, rather than Homo erectus.
• It is instructive to listen to Gish (1993) expounding on the apelike qualities of the skullcap.

"Pithecanthropus [Java Man] was not a man, but a gigantic genus allied to the gibbons, however superior to the gibbons on account of its remarkably large brain volume and distinguished at the same time by its sense of assuming an erect attitude and gait .It had the twice cephalization [ratio of brain size to body size] of the anthropoid apes in general and half that of man."

"It was the amazing volume of the brain - which is very much too large for an anthropoid ape, and which is small compared with the average, though not smaller than the smallest human brain that led to the now approximately general view that the "Ape Man" of Trinil, Java was really a ancient Man. Morphologically, however, the calvaria [skullcap] closely resembles that of anthropoid apes, especially the gibbon."

Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution written byCarl C. Swisher III

Human skull found on the island of Java—by two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man.An age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years.

The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution written by Ian Tattersall.

This volume is an informal account of the known paleoanthropological discoveries and associated historical information up to 1995. Aside from the academic facts, the book also includes descriptions of interactions between specialists in physical anthropology and evolutionary biology.

Extinct Humans written by IAN TATTERSALL and JEFFREY H. SCHWARTZ

Scientists have long envisioned the human “family tree” as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the famous Neanderthals, culminating in us, Homo sapiens. But this model is unlike the evolutionary patterns known for all other vertebrates—patterns that typically reveal multiple branchings and extinctions.

• Tilte:The Java Man skullcap
• Description:Discovered by Eugene Dubois in 1891 near Trinil in Java. Its age is uncertain, but thought to be about 700,000 years. This find consisted of a flat, very thick skullcap, a few teeth, and a thigh bone found about 12 meters away (Theunissen, 1989).

• Tilte:Java Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Description:Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this site. Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found – half of all the world's known hominid fossils.

• Title:who was Java Man
• Description:In 1892 on the island of Java, he found a thigh-bone, which to all intents and purposes was like that of modern humans. About a year earlier in the same location he had found a large skull-cap, and later three teeth.