Weidenreich, Franz

Some particulars of the skull and brain of early hominids and their bearing on the problem of the relationships between man and anthropoids

Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute, 1947. First edition. Pp. 387-428; 8 text-figures, 4 halftone plates. Original printed tan wrappers, lg 8vo. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, n.s. volume 5, no. 4. This work discusses the fossils of Homo erectus from Ngandong and Zhoukoudian and compares these to other fossil human remains and to the anthropoid apes. No ownership marks. Small bump to one outer corner, a clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 9713

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Weiner, J. S., Oakley, K. P. and Le Gros Clark, W. E. et al.

Further Contributions to the Solution of the Piltdown Problem

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1955. First edition. Pp. (1), 225-287, 7 text-figures, 5 black-and-white plates. Publisher’s original blue wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, volume 2, no. 6. The ‘Piltdown Man’ was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human. This paper presents further information about the hoax and how it was perpetrated. No ownership marks. A fine copy..

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Book number: 9712

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Weiner, J. S., Oakley, K. P. and Le Gros Clark, W. E.

The Solution of the Piltdown Problem

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1953. First edition. Pp. (1), 139-146; 2 black-and-white plates. Publisher’s original blue wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, volume 2, no. 3. The ‘Piltdown Man’ was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human. This paper reveals the hoax and how it was perpetrated. Signature of H. Dighton Thomas at the top corner of the front wrapper. Handwritten letter to H. Dighton Thomas about the controversy from Mary S. Johnston is laid in at the front. Rare paper. A very good copy..

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Book number: 9711

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Whitehead, Paul F., Sacco, William K. and Hochgraf, Susan B.

A Photographic Atlas for Physical Anthropology, Brief Edition

Englewood, CO: Morton Publishing Company, 2005. Brief edition. Pp. vi, 106; 200+ color photos, some black-and-white photos, some line-drawings.  Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 4to.  This well illustrated photographic atlas shows all the major fossil hominid and fossil primate skulls as well as drawings of comparative skeletal remains.  This is the brief edition not the full edition. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..

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Book number: 6700

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Wood, B, Martin, L. and Andrews, P. (editors)

Major topics in primate and human evolution

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. Pp. (10), 1-364; numerous text-figures (line-drawings, photos, cladograms and phylogenies). Publisher's original pictorial white cloth, lettered in black and gray, lg 8vo. This volume is based on two symposia held in Great Britain in the mid-1980s. This work includes 18 papers: R.D. Martin: Primates: A Definition; P.D. Gingerich: Plesiadapis and the Delineation of the Order Primates; L.C. Aiello: The Relationships of the Tarssiiformes: A Review of the Case for the Haplorhini; A.L. Rosenberger: Platyrrhines, Catarrhines and the Anthropoid Transition; P.M. Butler: Problems of Dental Evolution in the Higher Primates; P. Andrews: Molecular Evidence for Catarrhine Evolution; J.G. Fleagle: The Fossil Record of Early Catarrhine Evolution; M.J. Bishop and A.E. Friday: Molecular Sequences and Hominoid Phylogeny; M. Ruvolo and D. Pilbeam: Hominoid Evolution: Molecular and Palaeontological Patterns; L. Martin: Relationships Among Extant and Extinct Great Apes and Humans; M.H. Day: Bipedalism: Pressures, Origins and Modes; W.L. Jungers and F.E. Grine; Dental Trends in the Australopithecines: The Allometry of Mandibular Molar Dimensions; B.A. Wood and A.T. Chamberlain: Australopithecus: Grade or Clade?; M.C. Dean: Homo and Paranthropus: Similarities in the Cranial Base and Developing Dentition; C.B. Stringer: The Credibility of Homo habilis; A. Bilsborough and B.A. Wood: The Origin and Fate of Homo erectus; J.S. Jones: The Origin of Homo sapiens: The Genetic Evidence; D.R. Pilbeam: The Origin of Homo sapiens: The Fossil Evidence. Inscribed on the front endpaper by one of the co-authors. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8187

Catalogue: Human Evolution