Boule's error: on the social context of scientific knowledge

@article{Reybrouck2002BoulesEO,
  title={Boule's error: on the social context of scientific knowledge},
  author={David van Reybrouck},
  journal={Antiquity},
  year={2002},
  volume={76},
  pages={158 - 164}
}
Introduction On August 3, 1908, two young French clergymen with a passion for prehistory, the brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie, discovered in a cave near the village of La Chapelle-aux-Sains (Department of Corréze) an almost intact Neanderthal skeleton. Recognizing both the importance of their find and their own inexperience with such fossils, they handed the skeleton to Marcellin Boule, professor of palaeontology at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris. 
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