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KING, William (1809 – 1886)

KING, William (1809 – 1886)

1809 – 1886

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1864 CE

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The reputed fossil man of the Neanderthal.

King believed that the Feldhofer Neanderthal skull discovered by Fuhrott and Schaafhausen differed significantly from all known ancient and modern human crania. In this paper he proposed the name Homo neanderthalensis…