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 Discoveries of ancient man's remains are made by scientists around the world who share expedition discoveries through museum displays and international meetings. Scientists and philatelic authors also write literature on early man. 
Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). 

Personalities

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  • Agassiz, Louis
    (1807 - 1873) Swiss paleontologist; Harvard professor theorized on 'Ice Ages' and critic of Charles Darwin.
  • Andersson, Johan G.
    (1874 - 1960) Swedish mining expert; Peking man.
  • Arambourg, Camille
    (1885 - 1970) French paleontologist; La Chapelle fossil.
  • Aristotle of Stagira : Click to view the stamp.
    (384 - 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher; fossil theory.

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  • Bauer, Georg [Agricola, Georgius] : Click to view the stamp.
    (1494 - 1555) German mineralogist; coined term 'fossil'.
  • Bell, Thomas
    (1792 - 1880) English zoologist; President of Linnean Society during announcement of Charles Darwin-Alfred R. Wallace theory of evolution.
  • Black, Davidson
    (1884 - 1934) Canadian anthropologist; Peking man.
  • Blake, Charles Carter
    (1840 - 1887?) English anthropologist; doubter of Neandertal man.
  • Bonch-Osmolovskii, Glob
    (1890 - 1943) Russian anthropologist; Kiik-Koba remains in the Ukraine.
  • Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes, Jacques : Click to view the cancel.
    (1788 - 1868) French archaeologist; found stone tools.
  • Boule, Pierre Marcellin
    (1861 - 1942) French National Museum of Natural History, made totally inaccurate reconstruction of La Chapelle fossil.
  • Bouyssonie, Amédée
    (1867 - 1955) French Abbot, co-excavator of La Chapelle fossil.
  • Bouyssonie, Jean
    (1877 - 1965) French Abbot, co-excavator of La Chapelle fossil.
  • Breuil, Abbe Henri : Click to view the stamp. : Click to read the article.
    (1877 - 1961) French priest and prehistorian; made copies of cave art.
  • Broom, Robert : Click to view the stamp.
    (1866 - 1951) Scottish-South African paleontologist; Australopithecus.
  • Brown, Jno. Allen
    English Antiquarian; studied stone tools, suggested 4 divisions of stone age.
  • Bryan, William Jennings : Click to view the stamp.
    (1860 - 1925) Politician and Anti-evolutionist crusader; Scopes Monkey Trial.
  • Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de : Click to view the stamp.
    (1707 - 1788) French naturalist; 'Histoire Naturelle' in 44 volumes; 1749-1804.
  • Busk, George
    (1807 - 1886) Professor of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, examined Gibraltar man and Piltdown man.

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  • Casteret, Norbert
    (1897 - 1987) French caver; discovered prehistoric art in Caverne de Montespan cave during a free-dive in 1921.
  • Cave, Alexander J.E.
    Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London; examined La Chapelle fossil.
  • Chambers, Robert
    (1802 - 1871) Scientific journalist; 1844 anonymously published 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' 15 years before Charles Darwin.
  • Clark, Sir Wilfred Le Gros
    (1895 - 1971) English anatomist; exposed Piltdown man as fake.
  • Cuvier, Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert : Click to view the stamp.
    (1769 - 1832) French anatomist and naturalist; known as the 'Pope of Bones' and the 'Father of Paleontology', Diluvian man.

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  • D'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée Barbey : Click to view the stamp.
    (1808 - 1889) French writer and amateur historian.
  • da Vinci, Leonardo : Click to view the stamp.
    (1452 - 1519) Italian artist; opinions on fossils.
  • Dart, Raymond Arthur : Click to view the stamp.
    (1893 - 1988), Australian-South African anthropologist; Taung baby.
  • Darwin, Charles Robert : Click to view the stamp.
    (1809 - 1882) English naturalist and author; 'On the Origin of Species' : Click to view the stamp. : Sailed with the 'Beagle', co-published with Alfred R. Wallace.
  • Darwin, Francis
    (1848 - 1925) English botanist; son of Charles Darwin. Studied plant movement.
  • Dawson, Charles William
    (1864 - 1916) British amateur antiquarian; discoverer of : Click to read the paper in pdf format (104kb). : Piltdown man.
  • de Lumley, Henry
    (1934 - ) French prehistorian; Tautavel man.
  • de Mortillet, Louis Laurent Gabriel
    (1821 - 1898) French anthropologist; described hand-axes of L'Epoque de St Acheul.
  • de Puydt , Marcel
    (1855 - 1940) Belgian lawyer; co-discoverer of Spy remains.
  • Dollo, Louis
    (1857 - 1931) Belgian biologist; evolution is not reversible.
  • Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan
    (1859 - 1930) English physician and writer; Piltdown man.
  • Dubois, Marie Eugène François Thomas
    (1858 - 1940), Dutch paleontologist; Java man.
  • Dupont, Edouard François
    (1841 - 1911), Belgian geologist; Trou de la Naulette Cave.

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  • Evans, Sir John
    (1823 - 1908) English archaeologist; authored 'Flint Implements in the Drift'.

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  • Falconer, Hugh
    (1808 - 1865) Scottish paleoanthropologist; suggested name Homo calpicus (from 'Calpe', the ancient name for the Rock of Gibraltar) for Gibraltar man, coined the term Missing Link.
  • Fraipont, Julien
    (1857 - 1910) Belgian paleontologist; studied Neandertals of Spy.
  • Frere, John
    (1740 - 1807) English antiquarian; early association of stone tools with extinct animals.
  • Fuhlrott, Johann Karl : Click to view the stamp.
    (1803 - 1877) German science professor; Elberfeld, given Neanderthal remains by workers; presented paper on fossilized man : View paper of 1859 in German (1.1mb). : at the Natural History Society of Rheinland & Westphalia in 1859.

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  • Galton, Francis
    (1822 - 1911) English anthropologist, cousin of Charles Darwin.
  • Garrod, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth
    (1892 - 1969) English archaeologist, excavated in Gilbraltar, Western Judaea, Southern Kurdistan and Mount Carmel.
  • Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Karl Dragutin : Click to view the stamp.
    (1856 - 1936) Croatian paleontologist; discovered Krapina Neandertals.
  • Granger, Walter
    (1872 - 1941) American paleontologist; Peking man.
  • Grant, Robert
    (1793 - 1874) English professor of comparative anatomy; influenced young Charles Darwin with ideas on evolution.
  • Gray, Asa
    (1810 - 1888) American botanist; lifelong correspondent with Charles Darwin, wrote 'Darwiniana' arguing for concilliation of evolution and christianity.

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  • Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Phillipp August : Click to viwe the cancel.
    (1834 - 1919) German naturalist; Charles Darwin defender, treated evolution as fact in 1865 and created concept of 'Phylum'.
  • Hauser, Otto
    (1874 - 1932) Swiss-German antiquities dealer and historian, discovered Le Moustier and Cro-Magnon remains.
  • Henslow, John Stevens
    (1796 - 1861) English Botanist and Christ's College professor; Charles Darwin's natural history mentor at Cambridge.
  • Hinton, Martin Alister Campbell
    (1883 - 1961) English Zoologist; Piltdown man, owner of trunk with what appear to be test fakes of bones cut and stained.
  • Hodgkin, Thomas
    (1798 - 1866) English ethnologist; 1863 sent Gibraltar man's skull to George Busk; exhibited at meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science in Bath, September 1864.
  • Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
    (1817 - 1911) English evolutionist; Charles Darwin ally and confidant.
  • Hrdlicka, Ales : Click to viwe the stamp.
    (1869 - 1943) American anthropologist {born Bohemia}; Smithsonian Institution, defended Neandertals as ancestors of modern humans.
  • Huxley, Thomas Henry : Click to view the stamp.
    (1825 - 1895) English comparative anatomist; known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', debated evolution with Samuel Wilberforce at the 1860 British Association meeting of 'apes' and 'angels', published 'Man's Place in Nature' in 1863 coined term 'agnostic'.

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  • Issac, Glynn
    (1937 - 1985) South African paleoanthropologist; Kenyan excavation leader.

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  • Jefferson, Thomas : Click to view the proof.
    (1743 - 1826) American statesman and scholar {amateur paleontologist}.
  • Johanson, Donald
    (1943 - ) American paleoanthropologist; discovered 'Lucy'.

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  • Keith, Sir Arthur : Click to view the cover.
    (1866 - 1955) Scottish anatomist; rediscovered Gibraltar Neandertal in Hunterian Museum in 1906, Piltdown man
  • King, William
    (1809 - 1886) Professor of anatomy Queen's College, Galway, Ireland; first to form conclusion : Click to read the paper in pdf format (344kb). : that Neanderthal fossils were extinct species different from modern man. Suggested 'Homo neanderthalensis' as new species name.
  • Koenigswald, Ralph
    (1902 - 1982) Paleontologist; Pithecanthropus.

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  • Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de
    (1744 - 1829) French naturalist; 'Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres', proposed 'transformism' (evolution theory) before Charles Darwin.
  • Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray
    (1847 - 1929) British anatomist; Director of the British Museum, Piltdown man.
  • Lartet, Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte : Click to viwe the cancel.
    (1801 - 1871) French paleontologist and prehistorian; Dryopithecus, Pliopithecus, Ramapithecus.
  • Lartet, Louis
    (1840 – 1899) French prehistorian (son of Edouard); discovered Cro-Magnon site.
  • Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett : Click to viwe the stamp.
    (1903 - 1972) English anthropologist.
  • Leakey, Mary
    (1913 - ) British paleoanthropologist; discovered Zinjanthropus.
  • Libby, Willard Frank : Click to viwe the stamp.
    (1908 - 1980) American chemist; developed Radiocarbon dating C-14.
  • Linnaeus, Carolus [Carl von Linné] : Click to view the stamp.
    (1707 - 1778) Swedish taxonomist; 'Species plantarum' 1753 and 'Systema naturae' 1758.
  • Lohest, Marie Joseph Maximin
    (1857 - 1926) Belgian geologist; co-discoverer of Spy remains.
  • Lyell, Sir Charles
    (1797 - 1875) Scottish geologist; studied Neanderthal in Germany for skull cast described by Huxley; 'Principles of Geology' 1830-1833.

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  • Marston, Alvin Theophilus
    (1889 - 1971) English dentist; found Swanscombe man's fossil skull.
  • Ma?ka, Karel Jaroslav
    (1851 - 1916) Czech school teacher; found Sipka remains.
  • Mayer, F.
    German professor of anatomy, Bonn University; Claimed Neandertal remains were an 1814 Mongolian Cossack fleeing Napolean's army.
  • Mead, Margaret : Click to view the stamp.
    (1901 - 1978) American anthropologist/ethnologist.
  • Mendell, Gregor : Click to view the stamp.
    (1822 - 1884) Czechoslovakian abbot; father of genetics.
  • Moissan, Henri : Click to view the stamp.
    (1852 - 1907) French chemist; analyzed cave art pigments.
  • Montelius, Oscar
    (1843 - 1921) Swedish Archaeologist; Defined 4 divisions in Neolithic.

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  • Neander, Joachim (Neuman)
    (1650 - 1680) German theologian and hymnist; Neander Valley named after him, 'Neanderthal' in old German, now Neandertal.
  • Neuville, René
    (1897 - 1952) French archaeologist; first excavated Jebel Qafzeh.

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  • Oakley, Kenneth Page
    (1911 - 1981) British anthropologist; exposed Piltdown man as fake.
  • Osborn, Henry Fairfield
    (1857 - 1935) American paleontologist; American Museum of Natural History; fossil vertebrates.
  • Owen, Sir Richard
    (1804 - 1892) English zoologist; anatomist and paleontologist, coined term 'dinosaur'.

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  • Pei, Wenzhong
    (1904 - 1982) Chinese paleoanthropologist; found first Peking man skull.
  • Peyrony, Denis
    (1869 - 1954) French prehistorian; excavated La Ferrassie.
  • Pilbeam, David
    (1940 - ) American paleoanthropologist; Yale University.
  • Prestwich, Joseph
    (1812 - 1896) British Geologist; report to Royal Society on stone tools cites as the beginning of scientific archaeology.

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  • Ray, John
    (1627 - 1705) English naturalist.
  • Rigollot, Jean-Paul
    (1810 - 1873) French antiquarian; found stone tools near Amiens.

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  • Schaaffhausen, Hermann D.
    (1816 - 1893) German science professor (University of Bonn) presented paper : View paper of 1859 in German in pdf format (976kb). : on Neandertal remains with Johann Fuhlrott in 1859.
  • Scheutzer, Johann Jacob
    (1673 - 1733) German naturalist and historian; Diluvian man.
  • Schmerling, Phillipe-Charles
    (1791 - 1836) Belgian anatomist; excavated Engis and Engihoul, found first Neandertal in 1829.
  • Schoetensack, Otto
    (1850 - 1912) German anthropology professor; named Homo heidelbergensis, Heidelberg man.
  • Schultz, Adolph Hans
    (1891 - 1976) Swiss anthropologist; believed Neandertals walked upright.
  • Schwalbe, Gustave Albert
    (1844 - 1913) German anthropologist; thought Neandertals were the direct forefathers of modern humans; Java man.
  • Sergi, Sergio
    Italian paleontologist; Saccopastore and Mount Circeo discoveries.
  • Smith, Sir Grafton Elliot
    (1871 - 1937), Anthropologist; University College, London; described Neanderthal as grotesque, published 'Evolution of Man' in 1924.
  • Smith, William [Strata]
    (1769 - 1839) English geologist; similar geological strata contain similar fossil remains.
  • Smith, Worthington G.
    (1835 - 1917) English antiquarian; described stone tool manufacture.
  • Solecki, Ralph Stephan
    (1917 - ) American archaeologist; found pollen in Shanidar cave.
  • Sollas, William Johnson
    (1849 - 1936) English anthropologist at Oxford; Piltdown man.
  • Stringer, Chris
    (1947 - ) English anthropologist; 'Out of Africa' theory.

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  • Teilhard de Chardin, Marie-Joseph Pierre : Click to view the stamp.
    (1881 - 1955) French paleontologist and Jesuit priest; Peking man and Piltdown man.
  • Trinkaus, Erik
    (1948 - ) American paleoanthropologist; documented that Neandertals lived as recently as 28,000 years ago in central Europe.
  • Turville-Petre, Francis
    (1901 - 1941) English anthropologist; excavated in the Sea of Galilee.

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  • Ussher, James
    (1581 - 1656) Irish Archbishop; determined from Biblical accounts that Earth came into being during the night preceeding October 23, 4004 B.C.

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  • Virchow, Rudolf Carl : Click to view the stamp.
    (1821 - 1902) German pathologist; professor at University of Berlin, founding father of pathology and Germany's Institute of Anthropology; insisted Neanderthal was modern man with disease induced deformities of a pathological (microcephalic) idiot.

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  • Wallace, Alfred Russel
    (1823 - 1914) English naturalist; developed theory of natural selection independent of Charles Darwin.
  • Warren, Samuel Hazeldine
    English archaeologist; Clactonian man.
  • Weidenreich, Franz
    (1873 - 1948) German anatomist and physical anthropologist; Peking man.
  • Weiner, Joseph S.
    (1915 - ) South African anatomist; Proposed Piltdown man was a forgery.
  • Weinert, Hans
    (1887 - 1967) German anthropologist; Praeanthropus africanus.
  • Wells, Charles
    (1757 - 1817) American physician; presented paper to Royal Society describing the main thesis of natural selection 40 years before Charles Darwin.
  • Wilberforce, Samuel (Soapy Sam)
    (1805 - 1873) English Bishop of Oxford ; tutored by Richard Owen, debated evolution with T.H. Huxley at the 1860 British Association meeting of 'apes' and 'angels'.
  • Woodward, Sir Arthur Smith
    (1864 - 1944) British paleontologist and Keeper of Geology at the British Museum of Natural History; Piltdown man.

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  • Young, R. B.
    Geologist; Taung, fossil on desk of the quarry manager used as a paperweight.

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  • Zdansky, Otto
    (1894 - 1988) Austrian paleontologist; Peking man.
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Expeditions

  • Voyage of the Beagle : Click to view the stamp.
    (1832-1836) Circumnavigation of the globe by the HMS Beagle : Click to view the stamp. : from Great Britain. Charles Darwin : Click to view the stamp. : served as the ship's naturalist
   
Museum of Anthropology, Monaco.

Museums and Universities

  • Academy of Sciences - Paleoanthropology : Click to view the cover.
    Beijing, China.

  • British Museum : Click to view the machine cancel.
    London, England.

  • Charles Darwin Research Station : Click to view the cover.
    Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

  • Museum of Man : Click to view the maximum card.
    Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France.

  • Museum of National Antiquities : Click to view the stamp.
    Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France.

  • Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology : Click to view the maximum card.
    Monaco.

  • Natural History Museum (British Museum) : Click to view the booklet cover.
    London, England.

  • Neanderthal Museum : Click to view the meter.
    Mettmann, Germany.

  • Smithsonian Institution : Click to view the cover.
    Washington, D.C., USA.
The Wildman of Europe.
 

Congresses and Conferences

  • Archaeology and History Congress of Mons : Click to view the cover.
    (1894) Mons, Belgium.

  • Archaeology Congress of 1897 : Click to view the cover.
    (1897) Malines, Belgium.

  • 16th International Anthropology Congress : Click to view the cover.
    (1934) Paris, France.

  • 17th International Anthropology Congress : Click to view the cover.
    (1937) Bucharest, Romania.

  • First National Archaeology Congress : Click to view the cover.
    (1949) Almeria, Spain.

  • 1995 International Human Paleontology Congress : Click to view the cancel.
    (1995) Orce, Spain.