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A NUMBER of interesting papers by Dr. Franz Weidenreich are to hand. "The Trend of Human Evolution" is published in Evolution (1, No. 4 ; Dec., 1947), and "Some particulars of skull and brain of early hominids and their bearing on the problem of the relationship between Man and the Anthropoids" appears in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 5 (N.S.), No. 4 (Dec., 1947). In an article in the American Anthropologist, 45, No. 1 (Jan.–March, 1943), Dr. Weidenreich once again affirms his belief that Neanderthal man was the ancestor of Homo sapiens. The majority of physical anthropologists will probably not agree with the theories set forth in "The Neanderthal Man and the ancestors of Homo sapiens", but nevertheless Dr. Weidenreich can never be ignored with impunity. The last article comes from the Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II, 4, No. 1 (Nov., 1941). It is a lecture on the site and technique of excavation of fossil man in Choukoutien, China. No anatomical details of the finds are given ; but the student will find conveniently set out the story of the discovery and the excavation.
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Dr. Franz Weidenreich on Human Evolution. Nature 162, 484 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162484c0
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