Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 110
be classified as simian. . . . And, as with the skull, soalso with the femur, the differences that separate Pithecanthropusfrom man are less than those distinguishing it from the highestanthropoid. . . . Although far advanced in the course of differ-entiation, this Pleistocene form had not yet… … Fig. 31. in the Solo River basin type. Pithecanthropus credits is the transition form betweenman and the anthropoids which the iaws of evolution teach usmust have existed. He is the ancestor of man. Thus the author placed Pithecanthropus in a new family, ofthe order Primates, which he named the…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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