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The Boskop Skull

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IN criticising Pycraft's paper on the Boskop skull, my whole object was to get a fuller consideration of what I believe to be an extremely important early human skull. Opinions will differ so to the restoration of all imperfect human crania. We have seen how greatly anthropologists have differed in the restoration of the Piltdown man, and it is not surprising that there should be differences about the Boskop man.

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BROOM, R. The Boskop Skull. Nature 117, 589 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117589a0

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