Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms. Son John will take no such oath either. He studied at Brown University under Dr. Leonard Carmichael, went along with Carmichael to the University of Rochester, where he expects to receive his Ph.D. this June. Thereafter he will study medicine at Northwestern, specializing in the visual acuity of human infants...
...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...
...original Pithecanthropus consisted of an apish skull, a very human thighbone, a few "ambiguous" teeth. Sinanthropus was first described to the world by Dr. Davidson Black on the basis of a single tooth. Later five skulls and eleven jawbones came to light at Choukoutien, but no thighbone...
...Weidenreich has insisted that China's Sinanthropus was more primitive than Java's Pithecanthropus, which he regards as a backward offshoot of the Neanderthal men who emerged later in Europe. But Professor Dubois now considers his Pithecanthropus to be so primitive as not to belong to the human family...
...Science last week Dr. Weidenreich described in detail the first thighbones of Sinanthropus, discovered by Dr. Pei among last season's material collected from the Choukoutien caves. One piece was twelve inches long, the other two inches. There were several human features, including 1) general shape; 2) a groove near the knee end. On the other hand the Sinanthropus thighbones differed from those of modern humans in 1) greater stoutness; 2) faint curvature; 3) decreasing thickness toward the knee end. In these same features it differed also from the Java creature's thighbone. On this basis Dr. Weidenreich...