#31 Why are Neanderthals called “Neanderthals”?
I learned this today. Neanderthals were named after the place where they were found. The Neander Valley in modern Germany. “Thal” means valley in German. The earliest Neanderthal bones found were in 1829 in Belgium. A Dutch naturalist called Philippe-Charles Schmerling found a skull, but he thought it was a fossil of a human skull […]
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