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...Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range of variation in cranial capacity.* Present average is 1,450 cubic centimetres; but a person may have an interior head size several hundred cc. above or below that figure and still not be abnormal...
...which the Potomac derives its name. When the skull fragments of the old Indian; perhaps a contemporary of John Smith and Pocahontas, were fitted together. Judge Graham gasped in astonishment: "Why, it's as big as a watermelon!" This was only mild hyperbole. The unknown Algonquin's cranial capacity was measured...
...year 1936 has been a boom year in fossil anthropology. A quarry blast in South Africa turned up an adult skull of the same genus as the immature fossil Australopithecus found in 1924. A brain case discovered in England appeared to be older than Piltdown Man. A cranial piece dug out of a California creek, though probably not much more than 30,000 years old, looked like the oldest human relic ever found in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Few weeks ago from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging...
...southwest of Peiping, has been going on for a decade. On the evidence of a single tooth, Dr. Davidson Black set up Pekin Man as a new genus and species which he called Sinanthropus pekinensis. Seven years ago a Chinese geologist found an immature female skull. Then another childish cranial piece and many more skeletal fragments were turned up, including twelve jaws and about 100 teeth, representing some 24 individuals. After Dr. Black died his work was continued through the Rockefeller-endowed Cenozoic Research Laboratory by Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Peiping Union Medical College...
...traces of tools or fire were discovered. The third and fourth skulls found this year were buried ten feet lower than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature, as indicated by the closing of the cranial sutures. The fifth skull he last week pronounced the oldest human fossil ever found, older even than Pithecanthropus erectus, the brutish ape-man of Java...