Abstract
THIS excellent book is part of the literature of an arduous if somewhat wordy warfare concerning the genealogy of mankind in general and of that variety in particular known as the “Neanderthal” or “Spy” man which broke out some years ago amongst the anatomists along the Rhine valley, and, as this work shows, is still being carried on with great vigour. The outbreak was really a consequence of the discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus by Eugène Dubois in 1894. In the light of that discovery, Prof. Schwalbe, of Strassburg, commenced a critical re-examination of the remains of the Neanderthal-Spy race, and came to the conclusion that they could not be regarded as ancestral to modern Europeans owing to their many physical peculiarities, and that they constituted a species of mankind, to which the name Homo primigenius was applied.
Das Gebiss des Menschen und der Anthropomorphen. Vergleichend-anatomische Untersuchungen. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur menschlichen Stammgeschichte.
By Dr. P. Adloff. Pp. 165; 9 text-figures, 27 plates. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1908.) Price 15 marks.
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K., A. Das Gebiss des Menschen und der Anthropomorphen Vergleichend-anatomische Untersuchungen Zugleich ein Beitrag zur menschlichen Stammgeschichte . Nature 79, 278 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079278a0
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