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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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Fig. 3. Upper premolars and first and second upper molars of fossil man-apeAustralopithecus. After Broom. By the latter part of the Age of Mammals the prehuman stock hadprobably become broken up into several distinct species, some ofwhich were more backward, others more progressive toward highertypes.
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PITHECANTHROPUS; THE APE-MAN OF JAVA Fig. 4. (asts of skull top, endocranial cavity, femur and teeth. The labels are in the hand-writing of Dr. Dubois, the discoverer of this remarkable specimen, by whom these casts were presented. The teeth are now regarded as having belonged to an orang-utan. 10 THE OLDER RACES OF MANKIND(Early and Middle Ice Age) THE PITHECANTHROPUS OF JAVA The lowliest of known early human or prehuman stocks is thePithecanthropus, from an older Pleistocene formation near Trinil..lava. The remains of Trinil man were found in 1891 and 1S92 by Dr.Eugene Dubois, who had gone to the Netherlands East Indies with theavowed purpose of discovering an early form of fossil man. The re-mains consist of the upper part of a cranium (brain-case), a femur(thigh bone), and three teeth, found scattered over a small area; andalso a fragment of a mandible (lower jaw-bone) from another locality.Forty years later four additional femurs were recovered from a largecollection of fossils t

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