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Canadian Journal of Anthropology Revue Canadienne d' Anthropologie Volume 3:2 1983 PROCEEDINGS of A Symposium on HUMAN EVOLUTION Editor G.H. Sperber University of Alberta Edmonton Published for THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA by THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY Canadian Journal of Anthropology Revue Canadienne d'Anthropologie TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 3:2 Frontispiece ..............................................................................................................................................................................i Dedication ...............................................................................................................................................................................ii ... Tribute to Professor Raymond Dart ....................................................................................................................................111 Foreword ................................................................................................................................................................................iv Greetings From the President ...............................................................................................................................................v Greetings to the University ..................................................................................................................................................vi Participants in the Symposium on Human Evolution .......................................................................................................vii ... RBsumCs ...............................................................................................................................................................................VIII Human Evolution: The Geological Framework. by H.B.S. Cooke......................................................................................................................................................... 143 Hominid Evolution in Africa. by P. V. Tobias ...........................................................................................................................................................163 Question Period I .......................................................................................................................................................187 Early Man in Indonesia: "Defossilization" of Human Fossils. by T. Jacob .................................................................................................................................................................191 Question Period I1 ......................................................................................................................................................197 First Panel Discussion ........................................................................................................................................................201 Hominid Fossils From China and Their Bearing on Human Evolution. by R. Wu ....................................................................................................................................................................207 Question Period 111 ....................................................................................................................................................2 13 Human Brain Evolution: A Search for Units, Models and Synthesis. by R.L. Holloway .......................................................................................................................................................2 15 Question Period IV .....................................................................................................................................................23 1 Aspects of the Evolution of Human Behaviour: an Archaeological Perspective. by G.Ll. Isaac ..........................................................................................................................................................233 Question Period V ......................................................................................................................................................245 Final Panel Discussion .......................................................................................................................................................247 PROCEEDINGS of A Symposium on HUMAN EVOLUTION Held at the University of Alberta Edmonton, October 4/5th 1982 in Commemoration of the University's 7Yh Anniversary Editor G.H. Sperber University of Alberta Edmonton Published for THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA by THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY Raymond Arthur Dart Professor Raymond Dart was born in Brisbane, Australia on 4 February 1893 and was educated at schools in Queensland and at the Universities of Queensland and Sydney. After graduating B.Sc (Hon.) in 1913, he became a medical student at Sydney University. In 1915 he was awarded the MSc. and, in 1917, the M.B. Ch.M. (Hon.) of Sydney, which year saw him a demonstrator in anatomy. Enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Dart served in England and France in 1918-1919. On demobilization he became senior demonstrator in anatomy under Professor (later Sir) Grafton Elliot Smith at University College, London. Elliot Smith, with his strong emphasis on the nervous system and its role in primate evolution, was another major influence in Dart's life. When the Rockefeller Foundation established its Fellowships program, Dart and his fellow-Australian anatomist, Joseph Shellshear, were the first two Rockefeller Fellows (1920-1921). Dart spent most of his American visit under Robert J. Terry in the Anatomy Department of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Within a year of returning to University College, Dart was on his way to take up the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Dart held the Chair from 1923 to 1958 and also served as Dean of the Medical Faculty for 18 years. Some years after he retired from the Chair, when he was 70, he was appointed a Visiting Professor in the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential at Philadelphia and ever since he has spent 6 months a year there in this capacity, even including his 90th year! Dart's initial research contributions were in comparative neuro-anatomy and neuro-embryology, and a generation of protCgCs followed. He was interested in the peoples of Africa, and originated the concept that the Khoisan (Bushman-Hottentot) peoples of southern Africa were descended from an earlier population he called the 'Boskop race' (after the fossil human cranium found at Boskop near Potchefstroom, Transvaal, in 1913). Dart's name will forever be associated with the discovery of the Taung skull and his prescient recognition of its significance. At a time when discoveries in Java and China led to the view that Asia had cradled mankind, there fell