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Teuku Jacob
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<p>Teuku Jacob (6 December 1929 – 17 October 2007) was an Indonesian <a href="/facts/Paleoanthropologist/Umjg0sUn">paleoanthropologist</a>. As a student of <a href="/facts/Gustav_Heinrich_Ralph_von_Koenigswald/l30S6IvN">Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald</a> in the 1950s, Jacob claimed to have discovered and studied numerous specimens of <i><a href="/facts/Homo_erectus/5Xqv3CdP">Homo erectus</a></i>. He came to international prominence as a vocal critic of scientists who believed remains discovered in Flores belonged to a new species in the <a href="/facts/Genus/m8EFjSms">genus</a> <i><a href="/facts/Homo/qvJtEBr2">Homo</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Homo_floresiensis/N68vIkCG">Homo floresiensis</a></i>. </p>