Neanderthal This skull is a research specimen of the famous Neanderthal skeleton found in 1908 in Dordogne, France.  The specimen, that consisted of a nearly complete skeleton, was reconstructed by the French scientist Marcellin Boule.  Unfortunately he overlooked the report of pathologist Ruldolph Virchow, who said this individual was suffering from arthritis and rickets.  Boule, therefore, constructed the skeleton to look brutish.  In 1955, anatomists Wm. J. Straus of John Hopkins University and A.J.E. Cave of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College corrected these errors.  Today, the Neanderthal is classified as Homo sapiens neandertholensis (Modern man).