Summary of Madelaine Bohme's Ancient Bones

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#1 I was going to be part of a human evolution project co-managed by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen. In the middle of all the upheaval that comes with taking on a new position, I got a phone call from Nikolai Spassov, the director of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, Bulgaria.

#2 Spassov had found the fossilized remains of a great ape in Bulgaria, which contradicted the accepted school of thought that said apes had died out in Europe long before. We went to dig up the tooth and confirm its date.

#3 I was assigned to reevaluate the lower jawbone and other fossils found in Pyrgos, and establish exact dates for the sites at Azmaka, Pyrgos, and Pikermi. I was hoping the fossils would lead me back to the beginnings of paleontology in the nineteenth century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822544482

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Insights on Madelaine Böhme's Ancient Bones

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was going to be part of a human evolution project co-managed by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen. In the middle of all the upheaval that comes with taking on a new position, I got a phone call from Nikolai Spassov, the director of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, Bulgaria.

#2

Spassov had found the fossilized remains of a great ape in Bulgaria, which contradicted the accepted school of thought that said apes had died out in Europe long before. We went to dig up the tooth and confirm its date.

#3

I was assigned to reevaluate the lower jawbone and other fossils found in Pyrgos, and establish exact dates for the sites at Azmaka, Pyrgos, and Pikermi. I was hoping the fossils would lead me back to the beginnings of paleontology in the nineteenth century.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The story of the soldier who found the fossilized monkey jaw in Greece is a fascinating example of how fossils were discovered and collected. It was later named Mesopithecus pentelicus, and was a link between langurs and gibbons.

#2

The beginning of vertebrate paleontology as an independent branch of scientific study was marked by the find at Pikermi in Greece in 1833. Many early, groundbreaking books on the history of mammals were based not only on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which was published in 1859,