On the Relationships of Early Primates

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents xi
4. The Study of Evolution: Methods and Present Status of Theory 1
5. Evolution at Work 19
6. The Physical Distinctions of Man 36
7. The Riddle of Man's Ancestry 69
8. The Bearing of the Australopithecinae Upon the Problem of Man's Place in Nature 105
9. On the Relationships of Early Primates 128
10. The Geologic History of Nοn-Hominid Primates in the Old World 137
11. The Analysis of Primate Evolution with Particular Reference to the Origin of Man 154
12. On the Earliest Phase of Hominid Evolution 172
13. The Subhuman Evolutionary History of Man 203
14. Taxonomic Categories in Fossil Hominids 242
15. Prehominid Dentition and Hominid Evolution 257
16. The Genera and Species of the Australopithecinae 268
17. The Australopithecines and Their Bearing on the Origin of Man and of Stone Tool-Making 279
18. The Hominization of the Masticatory Apparatus, and Modifications of Diet 295
19. Morphological and Phylogenetic Problems of Taxonomy in Relation to Hominid Evolution 311
20. Вones of Contention 348
21. Statistics of Discrimination in Anthropology 370
22. Ecology and the Protohominids 378
23. The Villafranchian and Human Origins 396
24. Tools Makyth Man 422
25. On the Phyletic Evolution of Homo sapiens 436
26. A Reconsideration of Some Mandibular Profiles 460
27. Interpretations of the Fossil Material 466
28. The Origin of Homo sapiens 473
29. The Neanderthal Palaeanthropi in Italy 500
30. Morphological Position of the "Prophaneranthropi" (Swanscombe and Fontéchevade) 507
31. The Pattern of Evolutionary Development of the Genus Homo 521
32. Bibliography 533