Notable prehistoric finds include the Yuanmou Man, a Homo erectus fossil unearthed by railway engineers in the 1960s and determined to be the oldest known hominid fossil in China.

The excavations at Yuanmou and later Lantian show early habitation.

Perhaps the most famous specimen of Homo erectus found in China is the so-called Peking Man discovered in 1923-27.

Their first two music videos, " Secret Agent Man " and " Jocko Homo " featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, the hometown of most members.

Java Man originally carried Haeckel's Pithecanthropus label, though they were later reclassified as Homo erectus.

A famous example of Homo erectus is Peking Man ; others were found in Asia ( notably in Indonesia ), Africa, and Europe.

Most current researchers place Rhodesian Man within the group of Homo heidelbergensis, though other designations such as Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens rhodesiensis have been proposed.

* Homo, the wolfhound in Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus and his tools, popularly known as the " Java Man ", suggest the Indonesian archipelago was inhabited by at least 1. 5 million years ago.

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the " Java Man " were first discovered by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois at Trinil in 1891, and are at least 700, 000 years old, at that time the oldest human ancestor ever found.

In 2003, on the island of Flores, fossils of a new small hominid dated between 74, 000 and 13, 000 years old and named " Flores Man " ( Homo floresiensis ) were discovered much to the surprise of the scientific community.

Flores Man seems to have shared the island with modern Homo sapiens until only 12, 000 years ago, when they became extinct.

* Java Man, one of the first specimens of Homo Erectus to be discovered

Ötzi (, also called Ötzi the Iceman, the Similaun Man, the Man from Hauslabjoch, Homo tyrolensis, and the Hauslabjoch mummy ) is a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived about 3, 300 BCE.

* Homo erectus pekinensis or Peking Man, an ancient human ancestor

* October – Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus ( later redesignated Homo erectus ), or ' Java Man ', at Trinil on the Solo River.

The area's first known human-like inhabitant some 500, 000 years ago was " Java Man " ( first classified as Pithecanthropus erectus, then subsequently named a part of the species Homo erectus ).

Recently discovered was a species of human, dubbed " Flores Man " ( Homo floresiensis ), a miniature hominid that grew only three feet tall.

A now-famous depiction of a parachute that he dubbed Homo Volans ( Flying Man ) appeared in his book on mechanics, Machinae Novae ( 1615 or 1616 ), alongside a number of other devices and technical concepts.

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the " Java Man ", dating back 1. 7 million years were found along the banks of the Bengawan Solo River.

Ecce Homo (" Behold the Man "), Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem in Christianity | Jerusalem.

The valley ( German thal modernized to tal ) was renamed in his honor in the early 19th century, and became famous in 1856 when the remains of the Homo neanderthalensis ( Neanderthal Man ) were found there.

* 1891 — Eugene Dubois discovers fossils of Java Man ( Homo erectus ) in Indonesia.

Peking Man (), Homo erectus pekinensis, is an example of Homo erectus.

The discovery of the great quantity of finds at Zhoukoudian put this to rest and Java Man, who had initially been named Pithecanthropus erectus, was transferred to the genus Homo along with Peking Man.

A 1999 study undertaken by Chinese geneticist Jin Li showed that the genetic diversity of modern Chinese people is well within that of the whole world population, which suggests there was no inter-breeding between modern human immigrants to East Asia and Homo erectus, such as Peking Man, and that the Chinese are descended from Africa, like all other modern humans, in accordance with the recent single-origin hypothesis.

He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus ( later redesignated Homo erectus ), or ' Java Man '.

He called his finds Pithecanthropus erectus (" ape-human that stands upright ") or Java Man.

Eugène Dubois ' ( 1858 – 1940 ) discovery in 1891 in Indonesia of the " Java Man ", the first specimen of Homo erectus to be discovered, demonstrated mankind's deep ancestry outside Europe.

* October-Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus ( later redesignated Homo erectus ), or ' Java Man ', at Trinil on the Solo River.

Homo erectus soloensis, known as Solo Man and formerly classified as Homo sapiens soloensis, is generally now regarded as a subspecies of the extinct hominin, Homo erectus.

** Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.

In November 1953, Time published evidence gathered variously by Kenneth Page Oakley, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark and Joseph Weiner proving that the Piltdown Man was a forgery and demonstrating that the fossil was a composite of three distinct species.

In any case, the term itself is misleading, as any known transitional fossil, like Java Man, is no longer missing.

* Canadian anthropologist Davidson Black discovered a fossil molar of Peking Man in a cave near Beijing, China

The Peking Man fossil, discovered in 1929, is roughly 700, 000 years old.

In 1915, he published results of his studies of casts of specimens associated with the Piltdown Man, concluding that the jaw actually came from a fossil ape.

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For years Straton carried on a feud with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City because of its Hall of the Age of Man, which displayed the remains of fossil men.

In 1921 a human fossil ( a skull ) called Broken Hill Man or Rhodesian Man ( classified as Homo rhodesiensis or Homo heidelbergensis ) was found in the mine.

The fossil was discovered by archeologist Italo Biddittu and was nicknamed " Ceprano Man " after a nearby town in the province of Frosinone, 89 kilometers Southeast of Rome, Italy.