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This paper states that the first Javanese Homo erectus fossils were found in Trinil nearly 100 years ago. The paper explains the long-held theory that Homo erectus migrated out of Africa and dispersed throughout the Old World. The author highlights a more recent view that the Homo erectus and Homo Sapiens existed together on the earth, thus disputing other theories that Homo erectus either evolved into or was wiped out by Homo Sapiens.

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"Critics were quick to discount the relationship between the skull and the femur found in Java. This was due to the fact that the femur was found the next year after the skullcap was discovered in the same stratigraphic level but approximately 10 to 15 meters away. Many felt that the skull belonged to an ape or possibly a low order human but believed that the femur was completely modern. In the end, it was the disputed connected between the skull and the femur that undermined Dubois' explanation. Dubois eventually withdrew himself and his fossils from the scientific spotlight."

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