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Brain, Bob
Brain capacity
of 1470,
of australopithecines
and diet
of Homo
of Homo erectus
of pre-Zinjanthropus
of skull 406 vs. skull
of Taung child
and toolmaking
of Turkana Boy (Homo ergaster)
and upright walking
Breccia
British Academy
British Association for the Advancement of Science
British Empire Enhibition at Wembley, London
British Isles
British Museum
Tendaguru expedition
Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
Brooks, Alison
Brooks, Alison and Sally McBrearty, ‘The Revolution That Wasn’t’
Broom, Robert
character
dismemberment of human specimens
early career
education
importance, of findings
and Louis Leakey
as museum curator
as paleoanthropologist
prolific writer
and Raymond Dart
received National Academy of Sciences award
research methods
South African Fossil Ape-Men
on Taung child skull
Brunet, Michel
Buettner-Janusch, John
Burial practices
symbolic
Burton, Frances
Bush, George H. W.
Buxton (limestone quarry)
California Institute of Technology
Cambridge University
Camels, on expedition
Cane, Rebecca
Cape Times (South Africa)
Carbon-14 dating
of Oldoway Man
Catastrophic birth of humankind
Catching Fire (Wrangham)
Caton-Thompson, Gertrude, The Desert Fayoum
Caucasus
Cave, A. J. E.
Cave paintings
Centre for Prehistory and Palaeontology, Nairobi
Chad
Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
Cheboi, Kiptalam
Children of the Ice Age (Stanley)
China
Chou K’ ou Tien quarry (Zhoukoudian)
Chromosomes, definition
Clarke, Ron
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Climate change
and innovation
and migration
Climate change, and evolution
bottleneck theory
and diet
East Side Story
Coastal migration
Collard, Mark
Collège de France, Paris
Community Museums of Kenya
Competitive exclusion
Congo, Léopoldville (now Kinshasa)
Continental drift
Cooke, Basil
Cooking hypothesis
Coppens, Françoise
Coppens, Yves
on Johanson-White hypothesis
Creationism
Crick, Francis
Cro-Magnons
Crompton, Robin
Culture
body ornamentation
of Cro-Magnons
of Early Africans
and evolutionary theory
and innovation
language. See Language
and symbolism
toolmaking. See Toolmaking
Curtis, Garniss
Dart, Dora
Dart, Raymond
academic reputation
on bipedalism
disheartened
on Piltdown Man hoax
and Robert Broom
vindicated
Darwin, Charles
on bipedalism
’missing link’
Origin of Species
theory of natural selection
Dating, of fossils
carbon-14 dating
potassium-argon dating
Dawson, Charles
Day, Michael
De Bruyn, M.
De Vries, Hugo
‘Dear Boy’
Deinotherium
Depression era
Derived character
Desert Fayoum, The (Caton-Thompson)
DeSilva, Jeremy
Diet
and climate change
and evolution
meat-eating
shellfish and seafood
Dismemberment, of humans
Djimdoumalbaye, Ahounta
Djurab Desert
Dmanisi, Georgia
DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid)
mitochondrial
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Dordogne, France
Dubois, Eugène
Duckworth, Wynfrid
Mophology and Anthropology
Duke University
Dyes and pigments
Earliest Englishman, The (Smith Woodward)
Early Stone Age
East Africa. See also under individual countries
Miocene period
Olduvai Gorge
East African Archaeological Expedition
East Side Story
Ecological theory
Edinburgh University
Eldredge, Niles
Elliot Smith, Grafton
Epps, Meave (later Leakey). See Leakey, Maeve Epps (Richard’s second wife)
Erus, Justus
Ethiopia
Afar Triangle
Awash Valley
ban, lifted
geology
Hadar. See Hadar
Middle Awash, Rift Valley
moratorium, on expeditions
Europe, early man in
Evernden, Jack
Evolutionary theory
adaptive radiation
and biology
and climate change
competitive exclusion
and culture
and diet
East Side Story
genetics
and geographic isolation
gradualism vs. punctuated equilibrium
and molecular biology
multiregional evolution
natural selection
orthogenesis
punctuated equilibrium
and single species hypothesis
teaching banned
transmutationism
turnover pulse hypothesis
and walking upright
Findlay, George
Fire, use of
First Family (fossil group)
classification of
Fitch, Frank
Fitzsimmons, Vivien
Flores, Indonesia