Sentences with phrase «uncovered human fossils»

In 1856, three years before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a group of miners uncovered human fossils in a limestone cave in the Neander Valley of northern Germany — what would later be named Neanderthal 1, the first specimen to be recognized as belonging to another, archaic species of human.

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So it seemed fortuitous when, 5 years later, Charles Dawson, a professional lawyer and amateur fossil hunter in Sussex, U.K. (now East Sussex, U.K.), wrote to his friend, paleontologist Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, announcing that he had uncovered a «thick portion of a human -LRB-?)

Because Beard's work focuses on the origin and evolution of primates and anthropoids — the precursors to humans — he found the Libyan discovery of a new species of the primate Apidium to be the most exciting of the fossils uncovered by the team.