May you rest in peace, Sir.

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DEATHS

CREDIT: ANNAMARIA TALAS/REAL PICTURES
A GIGANTIC PRESENCE. 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.
Jacob studied fossil hominids under famed paleontologist G. H. R. von
Koenigswald, then found and was curator of many important specimens,
particularly of Homo erectus. He was a key figure in the Indonesian
independence movement, making nationalist radio broadcasts after World
War II during the
country's 4-year fight for independence from the Dutch. "He built the
field up--he was paleoanthropology in Indonesia for quite a while," says
anthropologist Russell Tuttle of the University of Chicago in Illinois,
noting that Jacob trained Indonesians to study the fossils found in
their country.
"It was an indigenous effort."
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