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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
SCHOETENSACK, Otto (1850 – 1912)

SCHOETENSACK, Otto (1850 – 1912)

1850 – 1912

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source n.n. (1882) · photo as of 1882, reproduced in "Homo heidelbergensis von Mauer" (1997) · Public domain

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1908 CE

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Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg. Ein Beitrag zur Paläontologie des Menschens.

SCHOETENSACK, Otto (1850 – 1912)
SCHOETENSACK, Otto (1850 – 1912)

First report on the Mauer jaw discovered by Schoetensack in a sandpit or quarry in the environs of Heidelberg. This was the first fossil specimen unearthed of an extinct hominin species which Schoetensack named Homo h…