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List of text figures; List of plates; List of tables; Introductory note; Foreword Sir W. E. Le Gros Clark, F.R.S; Editor’s notes; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Preservation and reconstruction of the cranium; 3. The cranial vault; 4. The basis cranii externa; 5. Certain critical angles and indices of the cranium; 6. The interior of the calvaria; 7. The thickness of cranial bones; 8. The endocranial cast of Zinjanthropus; 9. Metrical characters of the calvaria as a whole; 10. The structure of the face; 11. The pneumatisation of the Zinjanthropus cranium; 12. The dental arcade and the palate; 13. The pattern of dental attrition and occlusion, with comments on enamel hypolasia; 14. The size of individual teeth, absolute and relative; 15. The size of the dentition as a whole; 16. The crown shape index of the teeth; 17. The morphology of the teeth; 18. Summary of cranial and dental features of Zinjanthropus; 19. The taxonomic status of Zinjanthropus and of the australopithecines in general; 20. The cultural and phylogenetic status of Australopithecus boisei and of the australopithecines in general; References; Indexes.

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