William King
Geologist
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William King, was an Anglo-Irish geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of Homo sapiens, but of a distinct species: Homo neanderthalensis. Wikipedia
Born: April 22, 1809, Sunderland, United Kingdom
Died: June 24, 1886 (age 77 years), Galway, Ireland