Assertion: neanderthal | /r/CapableOf | assume iconic significance
Facets:
value: almost
type: DEGREE
value: in human evolutionary studies
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: As the first extinct human relatives to have become known to science, the Neanderthals have assumed an almost iconic significance in human evolutionary studies: a significance that has, of course, been greatly enhanced by the very substantial fossil and behavioral record that has accumulated since the original Feldhofer Cave skullcap and partial skeleton were accidentally uncovered, on a pre-Darwinian August day in 1856, by lime miners working in Germany’s Neander Valley (1–3).