Editing Java Man (section)

===Comparisons with Peking Man===
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In 1927, Canadian [[Davidson Black]] identified two fossilized teeth he had found in [[Zhoukoudian]] near [[Beijing]] as belonging to an ancient human, and named his specimen ''Sinanthropus pekinensis'', now better known as [[Peking Man]].{{sfn|Swisher|Curtis|Lewin|2000|p=75}} In December 1929, the first of several skullcaps was found on the same site, and it appeared similar but slightly larger than Java Man.{{sfnm|1a1=Schmalzer|1y=2008|1pp=44–45 [date of discovery]|2a1=Swisher|2a2=Curtis|2a3=Lewin|2y=2000|pp=75–76 [resemblance to Java Man]}} [[Franz Weidenreich]], who replaced Black in China after the latter's death in 1933, argued that ''Sinanthropus'' was also a transitional fossil between apes and humans, and was in fact so similar to Java's ''Pithecanthropus'' that they should both belong to the family [[Hominidae]]. Eugène Dubois categorically refused to entertain this possibility, dismissing Peking Man as a kind of [[Neanderthal]], closer to humans than the ''Pithecanthropus'', and insisting that Pithecanthropus belonged to its own [[superfamily (biology)|superfamily]], the Pithecanthropoidea.{{sfn|Swisher|Curtis|Lewin|2000|pp=74–76}}