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  1. This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Homo #neanderthalensis aka #Neanderthal
    In 1829 Philippe-Charles Schmerling, found a partial skull in the Grottes d'Engis, Belgium. He thought it was a poorly developed human
    In 1856 schoolteacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott recognised bones from Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in Neander Valley as distinct from modern humans.They were presented to anthropologist Hermann Schaaffhausen to study
    In 1863 Neanderthal Man was proposed as a new species. This was formalised in 1864