General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: MODELING AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING IN PALEOANTHROPOLOGY -- Hypothesis Testing in Paleoanthropology -- Discussion -- SECTION TWO: NEOGENE HOMINOIDS AND THE EMERGENCE OF HOMINIDAE -- Observations on the Paleoecology of South Asian Tertiary Primates -- The Early Fossil Hominids and Related Apes of the Siwalik Foothills of the Himalayas: Recent Discoveries and New Interpretations -- Ramapithecus: A Review of Its Hominid Status -- Remarks on the Reconstruction of the Dental Arcade of Ramapithecus -- Kenyapithecus and Ramapithecus -- Gigantopithecus as a Hominid -- The Double Descent of Man -- Hominoid-Hominid Heterography and Evolutionary Patterns -- Traits of Discontinuity in Human Evolution -- Discussion -- SECTION THREE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AUSTRALOPITHECUS AND OTHER EARLY HOMINIDAE -- A New View of Speciation in Australopithecus -- Dietary Adaptations of Australopithecus and Early Homo -- An Interpretation of the Bone Assemblage from the Kromdraai Australopithecine Site, South Africa -- Sexual Dimorphism in the Australopithecines -- Discussion -- SECTION FOUR: THE FATE OF THE CHINESE HOMO ERECTUS SPECIMENS THAT WERE LOST IN 1941 -- The Peking Man Fossils: Progress of the Search -- Discussion -- SECTION FIVE: REVISED CONCEPTS OF EARLY MAN IN JAVA -- Early Man in Java: Catalogue and Problems -- Morphology and Paleoecology of Early Man in Java -- Implications Arising from Pithecanthropus VIII -- An Explanation for the Diastema of Javan Erectus Skull IV -- A Study of the Modjokerto Infant Calvarium -- Discussion -- SECTION SIX: REVISED CONCEPTS OF EARLY MAN IN EUROPE AND THE U.S.S.R. -- Ante-Neanderthals of Western Europe -- Neanderthal Man: Facts and Figures -- Morphology of a Neanderthal Child from Kiik-Koba in the Crimea -- Palaeoanthropic Specimens from the Site Zaskalnaya VI in the Crimea.

Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Plates, i-xii.