JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS 1887, a young Dutch doctor with an un-Dutch name, MarieEugène Fran?ois Thomas Dubois, arrived in Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies, with theintention of finding the earliest human remains on Earth.

1Several things were extraordinary about this. To begin with, no one had ever gone lookingfor ancient human bones before. Everything that had been found to this point had been foundaccidentally, and nothing in Dubois’s background suggested that he was the ideal candidate tomake the process intentional. He was an anatomist by training with no background inpaleontology. Nor was there any special reason to suppose that the East Indies would holdearly human remains. Logic dictated that if ancient people were to be found at all, it would beon a large and long-populated landmass, not in the comparative fastness of an archipelago.

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