admin | 13. April 2011
Magnus Hundt was born at Magdeburg in 1449 and died in Meissen in 1519. He is a renowned German theologian, physician and philosopher of high repute. In joint collaboration with Otto Casmann, Hundt is generally regarded as one of the founders of contemporary anthropology, by the scientific community. As a matter of fact, the term [...]
admin | 13. April 2011
Charles Darwin particularly avoided specific mention of the origins of humans in his popular writings known as ‘On the Origin of Species’, which was first published in 1859. However, later in 1871, his work that is titled ‘Descent of Man’, he went on to talk about some physical human traits, particularly when looked at in [...]
admin | 13. April 2011
Charles Darwin once referred to Alexander von Homboldt as “The greatest scientific traveler who ever lived”. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a scientific German explorer and naturalist who travelled to most parts of Latin America and the world in search of modern botanical geography. He is known as the last Renaissance [...]