CHAPTER 28 THE MYSTERIOUS BIPED
“Just before Christmas 1887 . . .” National Geographic, May 1997, p. 87.
“found by railway workers in a cave . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 149.
“The first formal description . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 173.
“the name and credit for the discovery . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, pp. 3-6.
“T. H. Huxley in England drily observed . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 59.
“He did no digging himself . . .” Gould, Eight Little Piggies, pp. 126-27.
“In fact, many anthropologists think it is modern . . .” Walker and Shipman, The Wisdom of the Bones, p. 47.
“If it is an erectus bone . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 144.
“with nothing but a scrap of cranium and one tooth . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 154.
“Schwalbe thereupon produced a monograph . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 50.
“Dart could see at once . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 90.
“he would sometimes bury their bodies . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 233.
“Dart spent five years working up a monograph . . .” Lewin, Bones of Contention, p. 82.
“sat as a paperweight on a colleague’s desk.” Walker and Shipman, p. 93.
“announced the discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis . . .” Swisher, et al., Java Man, p. 75.
“enthusiastically smashing large pieces into small ones . . .” Swisher et al., p. 77.
“Solo People were known . . .” Swisher, et al., p. 211.
“in 1960 F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, pp. 267-68.
“our understanding of human prehistory . . .” Washington Post, “Skull Raises Doubts About Our Ancestry.” March 22, 2001.
“You could fit it all into the back of a pickup truck . . .” Ian Tattersall interview, American Museum of Natural History, New York, May 6, 2002.
“early hand tools were mostly made by antelopes.” Walker and Shipman, p. 82.
“males and females evolving at different rates . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 133.
“dismiss it as a mere ‘wastebasket species’ . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 111.
“have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverer.” Quoted by Gribbin and Cherfas, The First Chimpanzee, p. 60.
“perhaps the largest share of egos . . .” Swisher et al., p. 17.
“unpredictable and high-decibel personal verbal assaults . . .” Swisher et al., p. 140.
“For the first 99.99999 percent of our history . . .” Tattersall, The Human Odyssey, p. 60.
“She is our earliest ancestor . . .” PBS Nova, June 3, 1997, “In Search of Human Origins.”
“discounted the 106 bones of the hands and feet . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 181.
“Lucy and her kind did not locomote . . .” Tattersall, The Monkey in the Mirror, p. 89.
“Only when these hominids had to travel . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 91.
“Lucy’s hips and the muscular arrangement of her pelvis . . .” National Geographic, “Face-to-Face with Lucy’s Family,” March 1996, p. 114.
“One, discovered by Meave Leakey . . .” New Scientist, March 24, 2001, p. 5.
