MORPHOLOGY OF SOLO MAN, VOLUME 43 : PART 3 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; Introduction by G.H.R. Von Koenigswald

Weidenreich, Franz

Published by The American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1951

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Quarto, 10.6 in. X 7.75 in., pp. 205 - 290, [32] (plates). Illustrated with 32 pages of black and white plates, twenty-six text figures, and fourteen tables. Original light blue card-paper covers with black title to front and advertising to back. Sunning to spine; creasing to covers; thumbing to corners. Ink stamp and name to top of front board. Unmarked interior. WEIDENREICH, FRANZ (1873 1948), German anatomist, physical anthropologist, and paleontologist. Born in the Palatinate, Weidenreich taught anatomy at Strasbourg from 1899 to 1918 and at Heidelberg from 1921 to 1924. In 1928 he was appointed professor of anthropology at Frankfurt University. In 1935, during the Nazi regime, he left Germany and took a position at Union Medical College in Peking (Beijing), China. He settled in the United States in 1940, and from 1941 until his death was affiliated with the Museum of Natural History in New York City. A leading scholar of human evolution and morphology, Weidenreich became internationally known for his studies of Homo Sinanthropus, the human fossil remains discovered in China in 1927 of which he gave the first description in 1943. He also investigated the later Homo Sapiens group found at Chou Kou Tien in north China, Neanderthal skeletons from Europe and Central Asia . Among the problems dealt with by Weidenreich in his articles were the relation of erect posture to the evolution of the foot, hand, pelvis, and skull, and the influence of the expansion of the brain on human development. His shorter anthropological papers written from 1939 to his death were published in 1949. (from Jewish VIrtual Library). Seller Inventory # 87166

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Title: MORPHOLOGY OF SOLO MAN, VOLUME 43 : PART 3 ...

Publisher: The American Museum of Natural History, New York

Publication Date: 1951

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good