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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

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