Napier, J. R. - Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1959. First edition. Pp. (2), 18; 2 full page photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher’s original gray stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, sm folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). From the series: Fossil Mammals of Africa, no. 17. Napier describes and compares two hominin metacarpals from Swartkrans Cave; he concludes one metacarpal is assignable to Paranthropus and the other to ‘Telanthropus’ now called early Homo. Small bump to bottom corner of spine, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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