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Dubois also felt his discoveries confirmed two popular, contemporary theories: that upright posture was the first stage in the evolution that gave rise to humans, and that the East Indies (and not Africa, as scientists including Darwin had proposed) was the birthplace of the human race.
Alfred Russel Wallace died aged 90 in Broadstone, England, 7 November, 1913. When he died, he was the most famous biologist in the world. Science historian George Beccaloni said of him: “There were very long, glowing obituaries in all the world’s papers from Bombay to Boston saying he was the last of the great Victorians.
East Indies. The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The Indies broadly refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern Hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers, soon after the Cape Route was discovered.
Jan 28, 2022 · On January 28, 1858, Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist Eugene Dubois was born. Dubois earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus ), or Java Man. Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.
- First Americans: 16,000-35,000 years ago. Almost all Native American tribes – Sioux, Comanche, Iroquois, Cherokee, Aztec, Maya, Quechua, Yanomani, and dozens of others – speak similar languages.
- Na-Dene: 3,000-8,000 BC. Another group, the Na-Dene, crossed the Bering Sea to Alaska around 5,000 years ago, although other studies suggest they settled the Americas as long as 10,000 years ago.
- Eskimo-Aleut: 2,000-2,500 BC. The Inuit descend from an earlier migration: that of speakers of the Eskimo-Aleut languages. These are distinct from other Native American languages, and might even be distantly related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian.
- Inuit: AD 900. Just before the Vikings, the Inuit people travelled from Siberia to Alaska in skin boats. Hunting whales and seals, living in sod huts and igloos, they were well adapted to the cold Arctic Ocean, and skirted its shores all the way to Greenland.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. East Indies, the islands that extend in a wide belt along both sides of the Equator for more than 3,800 miles (6,100 km) between the Asian mainland to the north and west and Australia to the south. Historically, the term East Indies is loosely applied to any of three contexts. The most restrictive.
Christopher Columbus, commonly rendered in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón (1451 - May 20, 1506) was a Genoese-born navigator, explorer, and colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to the Indies, established permanent European contact with the unknown lands and peoples of North and South...
