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Neanderthal

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published June 17, 2019 at 10:00 AM EDT

On the morning of January 9, 1951, two Baton Rouge newspapers, the States Times and Morning Advocate ran a story that fueled coffee shop gossip and tailgate prattle across the state for weeks to come. The articles described the discovery of "Neanderthal man - an 11-foot tall ancestor of modern man - that lived in North America about 50,000 years ago."

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Kelby Ouchley

Kelby was a biologist and manager of National Wildlife Refuges for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. He has worked with alligators in gulf coast marshes and Canada geese on Hudson Bay tundra. His most recent project was working with his brother Keith of the Louisiana Nature Conservancy on the largest floodplain restoration project in the Mississippi River Basin at the Mollicy Unit of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, reconnecting twenty-five square miles of former floodplain forest back to the Ouachita River.

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