Talk:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

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Picture[edit]

The person on the picture is not GHR von Koenigswald, but paleoanthropologist Friedemann Schrenk. I think it is a bit misleading without any description of the picture... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.155.106.178 (talk) 22:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Limerick[edit]

Found this limerick, on a couple of web sites, associated with Weidenreich and von Koenigswald, and their hominid discoveries, particularly a robust mandible fragment was designated Meganthropus palaeojavanicus by Weidenreich in 1945 and a maxilla fragment from Sangiran and a juvenile calvarium from Modjokerto. These produced the first clear picture of a pithecanthropine face. I don't know if it would be notable or relevant, but I want to check and see if perhaps von Koenigswald wrote or contributed to it. I've found an attibution from a source unknown to me, Hooton's "Up From the Ape", page 297. Comments or opinions? WBardwin 03:08, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ODE TO HOMO SOME-JERKTENSIS

Young pithy from your Djetis bed

You raise a scarcely human head,

With all its soft spots ossified

And sutures closed that should gape wide.

Your marked postorbital constriction

Would clearly justify prediction

That had you lived to breed your kind,

They would have had the childish mind

That feeds upon the comic strips

And reads with movements of the lips.

They would have had no need for braces

To warp their teeth into their places-

Equipped for general mastication

And not progressive education.

In place of brows a bony torus,

And no ideals with which to bore us.