The Lost Peking Man

Ross Gellar, the boring and nerdy Palaeontologist

I  took ANTH 250 last semester and absolutely loved it! It is really the reason for why I want to pursue a degree in Biological Anthropology or of Palaeontology. Unfortunately, TV shows like Friends, made Palaeontology boring and only for the super nerds who loved dinosaurs... The pre Homo sapien sapien fossils may be as old as the hills, but I love 'em anyway.
I just read very interesting article about the original fossils of The Peking man that were lost during it's shipment to the US for safe-keeping during WWII, which never made it.

A replica of The Peking Man is all
that we have left of him... or is it?

A recent discovery has been made that a former US Marine, Richard M. Bowen, may have accidentally discovered the fossils in 1947 when he was digging foxholes in China during the Nationalist-Communist Civil War.

Richard M. Bowen

When I was first recounted the story of The Peking Man, I thought that the fossils were probably on the bottom of the Atlantic ocean somewhere, completely decomposed and now fish food. Oh the horror, I thought! The only fossils were found at the time, gone, a part of human evolution, gone!
Now I wasn't going to march over to China and start digging up the ground looking for the fossils; there has to be people a lot more desperate and more financially stable to be able to do this.
I sincerely hope that the Chinese Government allows Archaeologists to try and find the original fossils of The Peking Man, I would love to see him in the 'flesh'.