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NEANDERTHAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEANDERTHAL , a See also:

ravine near the See also:village of Hochdal between See also:Dusseldorf and See also:Elberfeld, Rhenish See also:Prussia. Here in '856 were discovered in a See also:Quaternary See also:bed in the Feldhofen See also:Cave human remains which have been referred to a type commonly called Neanderthal See also:Man. The bones found were a See also:brain-cap, two femora, two humeri and other fragments, now in the Fuhlrott Collection, Elberfeld. The cranium, pronounced by See also:Huxley to be the most See also:ape-like yet discovered, was remarkable for its enormous superciliary ridges. See also:Professor See also:Virchow and others contended that the remarkable shape was pathological or caused by disease during the lifetime of the individual. The subsequent See also:discovery of two other skulls, almost identical in See also:form, at See also:Spy in See also:Belgium, have helped to prove its typical See also:character. The now generally accepted view is that the Neanderthal See also:skull represents the See also:oldest known See also:dolichocephalic See also:race of See also:Europe.

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