‎BOULE (M.) - VALLOIS (H.V.)‎
‎Les hommes fossiles. Eléments de paléontologie humaine -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Masson, 1952, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur, 10pp., 583pp., 299 figures dans le texte‎

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‎---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Quatrième édition REVUE ET AUGMENTEE ---- "Boule was the central figure in French prehistoric studies during the half-century of his scientific career... Boule's importance lies in the role he played in the establishment of prehistory or paleoanthropology in France... Les Hommes fossiles ; Eléments de paléontologie humaine, first published in 1921, remained for a quarter of a century, in its several editions, the essential synthesis in paleoanthropology. Here Boule brought together the archaeological, geological and zoological data in order to provide the record of human achievement and adaptation through the changing landscapes of the geological past. In this he saw human evolution in the proper sense, not as a series of anatomical stages alone but rather as the continuing process by which the human form adapted to a constantly changing ecology... . (DSB II pp. 346/347)**A6DE+CAV.H3‎