Teuku Jacob Scientist

Teuku Jacob (6 December 1929 – 17 October 2007) was an Indonesian paleoanthropologist. As a student of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in the 1950s, Jacob discovered and studied numerous specimens of Homo erectus. He came to international prominence as a vocal critic of scientists who believed remains discovered in Flores belonged to a new species in the genus Homo, Homo floresiensis.

Personal facts

Birth dateDecember 06, 1929
Birth place
Aceh , Peureulak Sultanate , Dutch East Indies
Citizenship
Indonesia
Date of deathOctober 17, 2007
Place of death
Indonesia , Central Java , Yogyakarta
Education
Utrecht University
Known for
Biological anthropology

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Scientist

Field of study
Paleontology
Paleoanthropology
influenced by
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
William Montague Cobb

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Teuku Jacob on Wikipedia