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"The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself." Happy #histsci birthday to the great comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier. He was born #OnThisDay in 1769.
#OnThisDay in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology. #fossils https://t.co/PZpEKfSiqe
#OnThisDay in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology. #fossils
Remembering French paleontologist Marcellin Boule #OnThisDay. His study of Neanderthals in the early 1900s is often pointed to as the source for the creatures' brutish image https://t.co/tNohDfb21W #histsci #fossils
#OnThisDay in 1908, Boule presented his study on the La Chapelle Neanderthal to Académie des Sciences. He confirmed that Neanderthals were a separate species of human. https://t.co/prjnIXOcCB
#OnThisDay in 1846, Darwin began his study of barnacles, which would last for 8 years. He included fossil barnacles in this work! #histsci
Remembering a founder of American paleontology, Joseph Leidy #OnThisDay https://t.co/cKd1CgxdiS #fossils #hadrosaurs