The Eugène Dubois Foundation held its board meeting on 4 December 2014 at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettman, Germany. We were all delighted about the publication in Nature this week of the important research study that once again put Eugène Dubois’ work in Java at the end of the

The Dutch primatologist and ethologist Prof. Frans de Waal is the first professor to be appointed to the annually rotating Eugène Dubois Chair. He accepted his nomination with a public lecture on 3 October, entitled ‘The measure of all things? Ape and Human Cognition’.