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Pp. xv, 169; 45 full text-figures (black-and-white photos in stereo-view, numerous fine line-drawings, mostly of skulls). Publisher's original brown patterned cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, pictorial brown dust jacket, lettered in white, rectangular lg 8vo (9.5 x 8.75 inches). "Rak's book goes far beyond a superficial analysis of the facial skeleton of Australopithecus. He not only documents important morphological differences between the early hominid taxa but also interprets them in a functional, biochemical, evolutionary framework" (from the book's foreword by T. D. White and F. C. Howell). No ownership marks and no signs of use.