Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual meeting of the Harvard Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi, P. W. Bridgman '04, Holis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, was elected President, Soma Weiss, associate professor of Medicine, Vice-President, F. M. Carpenter '26, assistant Professor of Paleontology and Curator of Fossil Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoologoy, Secretary, and B. J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, Treasurer...
...Harvard's witty Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton once remarked, "There are not enough fossil men to go around among the physical anthropolo-gists." Hence the students of early human types must make the most of what they have. Two famed fossils of which much has been made are Peking man or Sinanthropus, found in the caves at Choukoutien about a decade ago by a Chinese scientist named Pei Wen-chung; and the Java apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered on the banks of Java's Bengaman River in 1892, by Dutch Anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Both of these oldsters appear...
February 6, "General Zoology," Frank M. Carpenter, assistant Professor of Paleontology and curator of fossil insects, Saturdays from 10 o'clock to noon, Biological Laboratories...
...Dutch-owned island of Java has been a rich hunting ground for investigators of the human family tree. In 1890 Professor Eugene Dubois found the first fossil bones of the famed apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe and the Rhodesian men of Africa. The fragmentary skull of a child, christened Homo modjokertensis, appeared to be in extremely ancient ground, but its features were too undeveloped for exact anatomical comparison. Two years ago primitive tools were found in Java, including points, scrapers, cores, and hand-axes typical...
...conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...