Anders Adolf Retzius

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The Anthropocene Epoch: Adding Humans to the Chart of Geologic Time

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The Oldest Human Ancestor

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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Born	October 13, 1796 • Lund • Sweden
Died	April 18, 1860 (aged 63) • Stockholm • Sweden
Subjects Of Study	skull • human being

William W. Howells

American anthropologist

Franz Weidenreich

German anthropologist

Herophilus

Alexandrian physician

Pierre Belon

French naturalist

Sir Arthur Keith

Scottish anthropologist

Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

German anthropologist

Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish philosopher

Magnus Gustaf Retzius

Swedish anatomist and anthropologist

Conrad Taeuber

American sociologist

Irene Barnes Taeuber

American sociologist

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist

Charles Darwin

British naturalist

William Harvey

English physician

Galen

Greek physician

Thomas Malthus

English economist and demographer

Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.

Paolo Sarpi

Italian theologian

Karl Ernst von Baer

Prussian-Estonian embryologist

Andreas Vesalius

Belgian physician

Daniel Lieberman

American paleoanthropologist

Richard Leakey

Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist

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