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48. Gee 1996. See Gee's quotation of Chris Stringer.
49. Hinton quoted in Gardiner 2003, 323.
50. Spencer 1990a, 263.
51. Spencer 1990a, 30.
52. Shipman 2002, 157. Shipman assured me in an e-mail message of Septem-
ber 22, 2009, that Dubois used the term
coconut
in describing the event: “Yes, as I
recall, 'coconut' was Dubois's term or else that of his workers. Not mine.”
53. Gee 1996. For details see Spencer 1990a, 87-89.
54. Dubois 1896; Shipman 2002, 326.
55. Keith 1931, 273-74.
56. Dubois 1899; Shipman 2002, 341.
2. taung: a fossil to rival piltdown
The opening epigraph is from Dart 1940, 169.
1. Tobias 1984; Dart with Craig 1959. In Tobias's account, Salmons borrowed
the skull from Mr. Izod's son Pat, who had taken it to Wits. Dart, on the other
hand (writing 35years after the event), remembered that Salmons had borrowed
the fossil after seeing it on a fireplace mantel on a visit to Mr. Izod's home. It
doesn't really matter which version is accurate, but it is interesting that they
differ.
2. Dart with Craig 1959, 2-3.
3. Dart with Craig 1959; Young 1925a,b.
4. The quoted description of the account is found in Tobias 2006, 133.
5. Dart with Craig 1959, 4-6.
6. Keith 1931, 47; Tobias 2006, 135; Tobias 1984, 26.
7. Young 1925b. See also Štrkalj 2005.
8. Young 1925b.
9. Dart with Craig 1959, 4.
10. Dart 1925a, 195; Tobias 2006.
11. Tobias 1984, 26.
12. This interpretation is also consistent with Dart's statement in a press
release: “These relics were brought to the University of the Witwatersrand by
Dr. R. B. Young, Professor of Geology,” on the assumption that Dart was speak-
ing figuratively rather than literally about the location to which Young brought
the specimens (Dart 1925b).
13. Dart 1925a, 199.
14. Dart with Craig 1959, 2-4; Dart 1925b.
