Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans this volume also breaks away

this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work

The volume also includes a section on the formation and coloring of shells followed by a commentary in Pliny's writings about shells

The printed result is a very fine network of irregular lines building up various depths of tone” (Rix - The Art of Botanical Illustration

These four sets of wrappers do not go with the Reptilia and Batrachia section described here

Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans this volume also breaks awayPp. (2), 18; 2 full page photo plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publishers original gray stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, sm folio (12 1 4 x 9 1 4 inches). From the series: Fossil Mammals of Africa, no. 17. Napier describes and compares two hominin metacarpals from Swartkrans Cave; he concludes one metacarpal is assignable to Paranthropus and the other to Telanthropus now called early Homo. Publisher British Museum