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Gibraltar 1
''Gibraltar 1'' is the specimen name of a Neanderthal skull found at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar in 1848, by Captain Edmund Flint, a British officer with the Royal Navy. Its discovery predates that of the "original" Neanderthal discovery but no one realised its importance at the time and it lay forgotten in a cupboard for years. The location and context of this discovery is unclear making specific dating of the skull impossible.
==In 19th century science==
Found more than ten years before the publication of Charles Darwin's ''Origin of Species'' and eight years prior to the famous discovery in the Neander Valley, the significance of the find was not understood at the time, and the skull was simply labelled as "an ancient human, died before the universal flood" and lay forgotten inside a cupboard at the Garrison Library for many years. After the publication of ''Origin of Species'', a renewed interest in the fossil human remains led to the skull being brought out of obscurity and presented at a meeting in the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1864.〔 Darwin was not present, but the skull was later examined by both Darwin and Thomas Huxley, who concluded the skull was that of an extinct human species. Darwin did however only make fleeting reference to Gibraltar 1 in the 1871 ''Descent of Man''.〔Darwin, R.C. 1871: ''The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex''. London: John Murray. Volume 1., (page 28 ), 1st edition.〕
A cast of the skull can be viewed at the Gibraltar Museum - the original is kept by the Natural History Museum in London.
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