The April 17, 2004 edition of New Scientist
magazine carried an article titled "Brute of Dragon Bone Hill [*]." In the article
anatomist Noel T. Boaz and anthropologist Russell L. Ciochon described their
study concerning Asian Homo erectus, devoting space to a claim regarding the
thickness of the H. Erectus skull based entirely on imagination. According to
this claim, skull (or cranial vault) thickness developed in response to the
many head blows received by H. erectus individuals during their frequent fights.
You can read our response HERE.
* Dragon Bone Hill: The location, originally known as Longgushan,
where the first Peking Man fossils were discovered in 1929, to the south-west
of the province of Beijing in China.
