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Ol doinyo Lengai (‘Mountain of God’)
Oldowan
Oldoway (later Olduvai)
human skeleton found
Oldoway Man
carbon-14 dating
validity questioned
Olduvai Gorge
conditions
Don Johanson’s expedition
‘Jonny’s site’
Laetoli site. See Laetoli site, Olduvai Gorge
Olmoti (volcano)
Omo I and Omo II skulls
Omo Research Expedition
Omo River
Omo Valley
On Safari (TV series)
One Life (Leakey)
Origin of Species (Darwin)
Orinthology
Oromo people
Orrorin tugenesis
Orthogenesis
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, Man Rises to Parnassus
Oxford University Press
Palaeoanthropology, definition
Palaeolithic Age
Palaeomagnetic dating
Palaeontology, definition
Paleontology
Palynology, definition
Pan African Congress on Prehistory
Addis Ababa, 1971
Pan-African Congress on Prehistory
Paranthropus (Australopithecus robustus)
Paranthropus boisei (Zinjanthropus boisei)
Patterson, Brian
Pauling, Linus
Peking Man
Phyletic gradualism, definition
Phyletic gradualism vs. punctuated equilibrium
Phylogeny
Pickford, Martin
arrested
lawsuits
Pickford, Martin and Eustace Gitonga, Richard E. Leakey: Master of Deceit
Pigs, fossil
Pilbeam David
Piltdown Man
Pinnacle Point
‘Pioneer Man’ (Homo antecessor)
Pithecanthropus
Plate tectonics
Platyops
Pleistocene era
climate
Plesianthropus africanus (Mrs. Ples)
Plesianthropus transvaalensis
Pliocene, definition
Pluvial Theory
Pollen, fossil
Pongidae
Potassium-argon dating
Pre-Zinjanthropus
brain capacity
named as hominid
Primitive character
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proconsul africanus
Proteins
Punch magazine
Punctuated equilibrium, definition
Punctuated equilibrium theory, of evolution
and turnover pulse hypothesis
Qafzeh
Radiometric dating
Reck, Hans
and Louis Leakey
Red ochre
Red Sea
Relative dating
Rhodes Trust
Rhodesia, Northern (Zambia)
Rhodesian Man (Homo rhodesiensis)
Richard E. Leakey: Master of Deceit (Pickford and Gitonga)
Richmond, Brian
Rift Valley Research Mission
Robinson, John
Royal College of Surgeons
Royal Free Hospital, London
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Rudolf, Lake (later Lake Turkana). See also Lake Turkana (Jade Sea)
Rwenzori massif
Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Sahul (lost continent)
Saint Acheul site, France
Saltation, definition
Saltations
San hunters
Sandawe hunter-gatherers
Sarich, Vincent
Savannah hypothesis, on bipedalism
Science
Scientific American
Scientific communty, London
Seafood
Selassie, Haile
Senut, Brigitte
Serengeti Plains
Shanidar: The First Flower People (Solecki)
Shellfish
Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Silberberg Grotto, Sterkfontein cave
Simpson, George Gaylard
Single species hypothesis
Smith Woodward, Sir Arthur
The Earliest Englishman
Smuts, Jan
Solecki, Ralph
Shanidar: The First Flower People
Solomon, John
Solomon Islands, bird studies
South Africa
apartheid
coastal sites
Johannesburg
Karoo region
Khoikhoi tribesman, bodies beheaded
Klasies River
KwaZulu-Natal, Sibudu Cave
Namaqualand
National Party government
post-apartheid
Transvaal
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
South African Association for the Advancement of Science
South African Fossil Ape-Men (Broom)
South African Museum, Cape Town
Spain
Speciation, definition
Stanford University
Stanley, Steven, Children of the Ice Age
Star (Johannesburg)
Stasis, definition
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Sterkfontein cave
Sterkfontein cave specimen
Sterkfontein Valley
‘Stone Age Man in Kenya Colony’ (Leakey)
Stone Age Races of Kenya (Leakey)
Stoneking, Mark
Stratigraphy, definition
Straus, William
Stringer, Chris
Sumatra
Sunda (lost continent)
Suwa, Gen
Swartkrans site
Symbolism, and culture
burial practices
Taieb, Maurice
Tanganyika (Lake)
Tanzania (Tanganyika). See also Olduvai Gorge
genetic testing of inhabitants
Taung (village)
Taung child skull
authenticity proven
Broom on
characteristics of
debate on authenticity
exhibited at British Empire Exhibition
exhibited at Zoological Society meeting