The Peking Man Fossils: Progress of the Search

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVI I
2. SECTION ONE: Modeling and Hypothesis Testing in Paleoanthropology
3. Hypothesis Testing in Paleoanthropology 3
4. Discussion 15
5. SECTION TWO: Neogene Hominoids and the Emergence of Hominidae
6. Observations on the Paleoecology of South Asian Tertiary Primates 21
7. The Early Fossil Hominids and Related Apes of the Siwalik Foothills of the Himalayas: Recent Discoveries and New Interpretations 31
8. Ramapithecus: A Review of Its Hominid Status 59
9. Remarks on the Reconstruction of the Dental Arcade of Ramapithecus 87
10. Kenyapithecus and Ramapithecus 99
11. Gigantopithecus as a Hominid 105
12. The Double Descent of Man 131
13. Hominoid-Hominid Heterography and Evolutionary Patterns 153
14. Traits of Discontinuity in Human Evolution 163
15. Discussion 173
16. SECTION THREE: New Perspectives on Australopithecus and Other Early Hominidae
17. A New View of Speciation in Australopithecus 183
18. Dietary Adaptations of Australopithecus and Early Homo 203
19. An Interpretation of the Bone Assemblage from the Kromdraai Australopithecine Site, South Africa 225
20. Sexual Dimorphism in the Australopithecines 245
21. Discussion 285
22. Plates I
23. SECTION FOUR: The Fate of the Chinese Homo erectus Specimens That Were Lost in 1941
24. The Peking Man Fossils: Progress of the Search 291
25. Discussion 297
26. SECTION FIVE: Revised Concepts of Early Man in Java
27. Early Man in Java: Catalogue and Problems 303
28. Morphology and Paleoecology of Early Man in Java 311
29. Implications Arising from Pithecanthropus VIII 327
30. An Explanation for the Diastema of Javan Erectus Skull IV 361
31. A Study on the Modjokerto Infant Calvarium 373
32. Discussion 377
33. SECTION SIX: Revised Concepts of Early Man in Europe and the U.S.S.R.
34. Ante-Neanderthals of Western Europe 381
35. Neanderthal Man: Facts and Figures 389
36. Morphology of a Neanderthal Child from Kiik-Koba in the Crimea 409
37. Palaeoanthropic Specimens from the Site Zaskalnaya VI in the Crimea 419
38. Discussion 429
39. Biographical Notes 431
40. Index of Names 439
41. Index of Subjects 445