September
12
/ 2022
Has the search for the modern relatives of Flores Island’s Homo floresiensis turned into a hoax-hunt? Everything that scientists thought about human evolution changed in 1856 after the first fossil evidence of ancestral human forms was discovered by quarrymen in the Neander Valley in Germany, sparking great debate about the then unknown evolution of our species. The discovery of this Neanderthal skull marked the beginning of human paleontology and it also initiated a volume of new questions pertaining to how many other early human ancestors were out there, still awaiting discovery. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"99210","attributes":{"alt":"Professor Johann Karl Fuhlrott discovered the skull of “Neanderthal 1” in the Feldhofer Cave in Germany in 1856, and it was radiocarbon dated to 40,000 years ago. (Public Domain).","class":"media-image","height":"699","style":"width
