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Died. Dr. Franz Weidenreich, 75, famed German-born anthropologist; in Manhattan. His research on Asiatic skull fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

When TIME reappeared on German newsstands two months ago after seven years' absence, Journalist Peter Weidenreich thought that the blow ought to be softened. A native Berliner who left Germany for the U.S. about the time Hitler's Wehrmacht moved into Austria, became a naturalized American citizen, served with SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division (as radio commentator and editor of German-language newspapers) in the late war, Weidenreich figured that TIME would be a stiff jolt for Germans accustomed to the controlled misinformation of Herr Gocbbels' press. To help make TIME more intelligible to German readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Does a high brow necessarily make its owner a highbrow? Anthropologists have long and solemnly argued the relative braininess of long-headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bumps & Brains | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Weidenreich traces the head-shape fallacy, on which the Nazis based their theory of the superiority of the longheaded Nordic type, to "a tragic anthropological error committed in good faith" 100 years ago by a Swedish anatomist named Anders Retzius. Retzius hit on the idea of identifying peoples or races by a head-measurement index based on the ratio between length (from the forehead to the back of the head) and breadth. Ever since, anthropologists have classified all men as "dolichocephalics" (long-headed), "brachycephalics" (broad-headed) and "mesocephalics" (in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bumps & Brains | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Anthropologists by now have measured so many heads that Dr. Weidenreich feels the evidence is clear. The facts: 1) the Asiatics (notably the Mongols), who were supposed to have contaminated European dolichocephalism, had long heads, not round heads; 2) the only predominantly long-headed groups in the world today are savages in Australia and Africa; 3) civilized men of all races are becoming more & more roundheaded, probably as a result of rising from all fours to an erect posture, which changes the form of the spinal column and of the skull base. The trend toward a broader and shorter skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bumps & Brains | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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