Talk:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

Picture
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)

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.