This is a part of the course, Human Evolution: Past and Future, which I presented in 2014.
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The textbook story of the fossil leaves out a wider context in which scientists interpreted the first evidence of Australopithecus.
The skull provides some of the best evidence for the ancestral population of Neandertals, and had a tumultuous history in the decades after its discovery.
An investigation claims dozens of cases of misdated bones in Rheinland-Pfalz, including the purported Ochtendung Neandertal.
