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William Plane Pycraft (13
January 1868 – 1 May 1942) was an
English osteologist and zoologist.
Pycraft was born on 13
January 1868 in
Great Yarmouth in...
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zoologist William Plane Pycraft in "The
Origin of Birds", a 1906
article published in the
magazine Knowledge and
Scientific News.
Pycraft added to his article...
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Arthur Smith Woodward.
Front row: A. S. Underwood,
Arthur Keith, W. P.
Pycraft, and Ray Lankester. The
portrait on the wall is of
Charles Darwin. Painting...
- "crooked man", from
Cyphanthropus rhodesiensis (Rhodesian Man)
William Plane Pycraft (1928). "African man", used by T.F.
Dreyer (1935) for the
Florisbad Skull...
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Protanthropus (Haeckel, 1895),
Sinanthropus (Black, 1927),
Cyphanthropus (
Pycraft, 1928)
Africanthropus (Dreyer, 1935),
Telanthropus (Broom &
Anderson 1949)...
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subsequently discovered by
paleontologists such as
Robert Broom,
William Pycraft and
Raymond Dart. The
original skull was
incomplete consisting of frontal...
- editors:
starting with
volume 1 (1907): H.F. Witherby, ****isted by W.P.
Pycraft (until vol. 3) from
volume 3 (1909),
Witherby was
further ****isted by the...
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thought that they were most
closely related to the Galliformes.
Pycraft (1900)
presented a
major advance when he
coined the term Palaeognathae...
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Woolfe and
Smith were
joined by
Natural History Museum curator W. P.
Pycraft,
ornithologist Edgar Chance, bird
photographer Walter Higham, naturalist...
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Pycraft, W. P. (1903). "On the
Pterylography of Photodilus". Ibis. 45 (1): 36–48...