Deaths

摘要

As Indonesia's "king of paleoanthropology," Teuku Jacob ruled over a vital collection of hominid fossils. He was a formidable skeptic of the 1-meter-tall "hobbit" remains from the Indonesian island of Flores, arguing that they instead represented a diseased modern human. On 17 October, at the age of 76, the professor emeritus and former rector of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta died of liver problems.