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 * ... that to support his claim that Java Man was the "missing link", discoverer Eugène Dubois argued that it looked like a "giant gibbon"?


 * ... that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé, located 22 km east of Damascus, Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?


 * ... that the Red Deer Cave people are the youngest prehistoric people discovered who do not appear similar to modern humans?


 * ... that highlights from the history of hadrosaur research include the first dinosaur fossils to be mounted in a museum, the colossal Shantungosaurus, and Maiasaura nesting grounds in Montana?


 * ... that paleobotanist Shya Chitaley named an extinct plant species for Cleveland's bicentennial and also had an extinct plant species named for her?