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Cardinal, archbishop of westminster; b. Copped Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808; d. London, Jan. 14, 1892. He was… Java man , Java man a fossil hominid of the Middle Pleistocene period, whose remains were found in Java in 1891. Pithecanthropus , Pithecanthropus a former genus name applied to some fossil hominids found in Java in 1891. Also called Java man. The term was originally coined as a…
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