Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 The Bones of Dragon Hill -- Chapter 2 The Dragon Reclaims Its Own -- Chapter 3 Giants and Genes: Changing Views of Peking Man's Evolutionary Significance -- Chapter 4 The Third Function: A Hypothesis on the Mysterious Skull of Peking Man -- Chapter 5 The Adaptive Behavior of the Not-Quite-Human -- Chapter 6 The Times and Climes of Homo erectus -- Chapter 7 The Nature of Humanness at Longgushan: Brain, Language, Fire, and Cannibalism -- Chapter 8 Alpha and Omega: Resolving the Ultimate Questions of the Beginnings and Endings of Homo erectus, the Species -- Chapter 9 Testing the New Hypotheses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits for Illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.