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...love hard too," a dangerous blond tells Mike before surrendering to his Neander-thrills. (And after a rough night in Kiss Me, Deadly, he says, "I slept hard." Mike does everything but think hard.) He's a hard man the ladies fall hard...
...FIRST DISCOVERED] Neander Valley, Germany...
...time of the Neander Valley find, Charles Darwin had not yet published his famous The Origin of Species, and evolution was still, at best, only a hazy conjecture among a handful of scientists. Indeed, most people then believed that human beings had remained essentially unchanged since creation...
...first the German workmen thought they had found the remains of an extinct cave bear. Quarrying for limestone on a summer day in 1856, they had blasted open a small cave on the side of a gorge called Neanderthal (Neander Valley), near Dusseldorf, and were digging up the cave floor with pickaxes when they came upon the strange skull and sturdy bones. Setting the skeletal remains aside, they kept digging, never dreaming that their discovery would soon spark confusion, dismay and heated debate that has continued to this...
...present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern man. Then in 1856, a similar skull, unearthed in the Neander Valley outside the German city of D?sseldorf, showed that at least one of man's probable ancestors (later named Neanderthal man) had a low, sloping forehead, a receding chin, and thick ridges over his eye sockets. Java man, discovered by a Dutch doctor who found a skullcap, or cranium...