Editing Java Man (section)

===Type specimen===
The fossils found in Java are considered the [[type specimen]] for ''H. erectus''. Because the fossils of Java Man were found "scattered in an [[alluvial deposit]]"{{spaced ndash}}they had been laid there by the flow of a river{{spaced ndash}}detractors doubted that they belonged to the same species, let alone the same individual.{{sfn|Schmalzer|2008|p=34}} German [[pathologist]] [[Rudolf Virchow]], for instance, argued in 1895 that the femur was that of a gibbon.{{sfn|Gould|1993|p=135}} Dubois had difficulty convincing his critics, because he had not attended the excavation, and could not explain specifically enough the exact location of the bones.{{sfn|Swisher|Curtis|Lewin|2000|p=69}} Because the Trinil thighbone looks very much like that of a modern human, it might have been a "[[reworked fossil]]", that is, a relatively young fossil that was deposited into an older layer after its own layer had been eroded. For this reason, there is still dissent about whether all the Trinil fossils represent the same species.{{sfn|Dennell|2009|pp=159–61}}