ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Australopithecus, Bell Labs, Orangutan
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At the turn of the 20th century, the fossil remains attributed to the human family were very. In 1856, workers in a limestone quarry near dusseldorf (germany), discovered a primitive-looking skull and other bones. These remains were interpreted in many different ways by the scientist of the time: this is the name to the famous neandertals, 1856 is earlier than the publication of darwin"s book. Later, in 1891, eugene dubois, a dutch anatomist, discovered in java a skull cap with a very primitive morphology. Again, this finding was very controversial at the time: species: homo erectus, some people thought it was part of the human lineage, while others didn"t. During the first decade of the 20th, anthropologists were struggling to understand how human evolution happened. In 1912, charles dawson, an amateur archeologist, discovered in piltdown (south. England), some fossils that were regarded as relevant to understand human origins. It was a missing-link between apes and humans.
