The Fossil Man of Lansing, Kansas

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 07 May 1903 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 68, pages 7-7 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Pearson, Karl;

doi: 10.1038/068007a0

The Fossil Man of Lansing, Kansas

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A GOOD deal of discussion has recently been aroused in America by the discovery of the so-called “fossil man of Lansing.” It seems worth while considering the probable stature of the individual to whom the bones belonged. Prof. S. W. Williston, of Chicago, gives in the Popular Science Monthly for March (p. 470) the following values for the bone lengths, without, however, stating how the measurements were taken:—Femur, 43.0 cm.; Tibia, 35.0 cm.; Humerus, 30.2 cm.; Radius, 25.0 cm. From my memoir on the “Reconstruction of the Stature of Prehistoric Races” (Phil. Trans., vol. cxcii. A, pp. 169–244), by using the formulae on p. 196 Dr. Alice Lee has obtained the following results in cms.:—

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