Weidenreich on species
Franz Weidenreich, in his 1945 article, "The Puzzle of Pithecanthropus": It has become almost a rule in paleoanthropology that when a new hominid type is recovered scarcely one is proclaimed as lying...
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By chance I ran across an 2009 post by Rachel Martin of NYU Museum Studies, which investigates a mystery related to one of my scientific heroes, Franz Weidenreich ("A Hittite Goddess and Theories of...
View ArticleWhen anthropological and geological facts collide
This passage is the first paragraph of the introduction to Franz Weidenreich's monograph, The Skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis [1]. In my earlier contributions to the study of Early Man I pointed out...
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