L48 Anthro 150A Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Gibraltar 1, Engis 2, Engis
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Engis 2: discovered in 1829 at engis cave. Gibraltar 1: discovered in 1848 at forbes quarry. Feldhofer 1: discovered in 1856 in the neander valley, germany. A bunch of odd things about these bones. First one to be deemed as human. This was around the same time as darwin"s discoveries. Darwin publishes in 1871 a book called the descent of man. Thomas huxley: talks about evolution and how humans might be involved. Published a book with everything that was known about primates at the time. Assessed how similar/different the neanderthals were from living humans; how anatomy compares to today. The neanderthal is not a modern human, but could be closely related. Not representative of a distant ancestor of a human, but rather something intermediate. 1863 - published on man"s place in nature. The beginnings of what we would now recognize as primatology or paleontology. African age chimps and gorillas are probably the most closely related to humans.
