Talk:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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[edit] Limerick
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)
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.
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