From 25 September 1958 it was collected by Professor Dimas Femández-Galiano, assisted by a Dutch team from the University of Utrecht led by Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald.
von Koenigswald studied the relationships between African, Asian and European hominoid fossils attributed to Ramapithecus or its close allies such as Graecopithecus of Greece and Kenyapithecus of Fort Ternan, Kenya.
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This later led him to strongly press the claim of India as the original home of the Hominidae.
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Later, Pithecanthropus was incorporated into the genus Homo as Homo erectus.
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