Question

Historically, this person is arguably the most influential paleoanthropologist in the field? O Eugene Dubois O Louis Leakey O Raymond Dart O Stella Young

Answer 1

1. Eugène Dubois is Dutch anatomist and geologist who discovered the remains of Java man, the first known fossil of Homo erectus. He is not a most influential palenoanthropologist.

Louis Leakey is a British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa. He is also not a most influential palenoanthropologist.

Stella young is a disability rights activist. She is not a paleoanthropologist. Henec this is not the correct answer.

Raymond Dart is a most influential palenoanthropologist.

Raymond Dart is the best known palenoanthropologist for his groundbreaking research in palaeoanthropology. He made significant contributions to various disciplines especially in the study of living non-human primates. Paleoanthropology is a subdiscipline of anthropology. Raymond Dart (1920) proposed that early hominins (bipedal primates, like ourselves) found in South African caves had inhabited those caves. In addition to this, he interpreted puncture wounds found in some of the skulls as evidence that those hominins made and used weapons for hunting and male-male aggression. Hence Raymond Dart is the correct answer.

2. Donald Johanson, is an American paleoanthropologist best known for his discovery of one of the most complete skeletons of Australopithecus afarensis known as “Lucy”. Hence Donald Johanson is not the correct answer.

Franz Weidenreich, a Jewish German anatomist and physical anthropologist who studied evolution is not the correct answer.

Stella young is a disability rights activist. She is not a paleoanthropologist. Henec this is not the correct answer.

Ans: Eugène Dubois

Eugène Dubois changed the Sinanthropus eructus to Homo erectus. The first specimens of Homo erectus had been found in 1891 by Eugène Dubois in Java, and he named it as "Java Man". Java Man is an early human fossil.  It was estimated to be between 700,000 to1,000,000 years old. It was the oldest hominid fossils ever found and it remains the type specimen for Homo erectus.