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...Admission to the human family-the family of hominidae-does not include a label as Homo sapiens, the species in which all modern men are grouped. Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus not only belong to different species but to different genera. Such later types as the Neanderthal and Heidelberg men belong to the same genus as modern man but to different species. First indubitable representatives of Homo sapiens were the tall, artistic Cromagnons who flourished in Europe some 25,000 years ago, after the Neanderthalers had disappeared...
...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...
...Pleistocene. One figure given for their ages is 500,000 years; another is 1,000,000 years. Two 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...
...Professor Earnest Albert Hooton of Harvard University believes that the world of men is in bad shape. What distinguishes Anthropologist Hooton from most other calamity-howlers, however, is that his unflattering comments are backed up by a great store of information on the biological history and present condition of Homo sapiens, and that although he is a scientist he speaks not only with clarity but with...
...making public addresses, but he does so frequently and the book is for the most part a collection of such talks delivered during the past several years. Other chapters are essays originally printed in magazines. Some of the material is straightforward anthropological exposition: descriptions of such famed forerunners of Homo sapiens as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Pithecanthropus erectus, and of the confused state of anthropological opinion about them...