BOOK REVIEWS
highly successful individuals in presum-
ably superb physical condition.
This study could have been compressed
into a monograph, and perhaps into a long
article. However, the opportunity to en-
large and expand the basic data into a
comprehensive survey, including aspects
of method and analysis that might other-
wise have been lost, has been fully ex-
ploited by the authors. The result, though
overpriced in American dollars, is a meaty
volume that will be of interest and value
to anyone concerned with biological vari-
ation and its relation to physical com-
petition.
FRANCIS
E. JOHNSTON
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
THE TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT. By
B. G . Sarnat (ed.) (2nd ed.) pp. xxi
and 260 and 112 figures. Charles C
Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1964.
When I received this book for review I
wondered how such a specialized volume
could be presented to physical anthropol-
ogists, themselves a heterogeny of special-
ists. And then, to myself, I paraphrased,
if there be “sermons in stones” certainly
there must be lessons in any well-done
book on human morphology and its clinical
implications.
Du Brul’s discussion (pp. 3-27) of the
evolution of the TM joint has implication
and application for anyone teaching homi-
nid evolution, for here adaptation and
selection are writ large. We hear so much
of “hominid traits” in the teeth of fossil
Primates: Here’s our chance to go a step
farther and note “hominid traits” in the
joint the function of which, in part, medi-
ates occlusal forces and, hence, inter-jaw,
inter-tooth, and inter-cuspal patterns.
Then, with phylogeny well in hand, turn
to ontogeny. First, though, master the
functional anatomy of the T M joint by
Sicher (pp. 28-58) and Weinmann and
Sicher’s histophysiology of the TM joint
(pp, 71-76). With these functional prin-
ciples well in hand consider now the
growth, in Homo, of the TM joint: First
its embryology by Levy (pp. 59-70), then
its postnatal growth as part of the total
cranio-facial complex by Brodie (pp. 77-
88); along with this, to study the dynamics
495
of change on a longitudinal basis, there
is a n excellent presentation of the roent-
genography of the TM joint by Ricketts
(pp. 102-132).
Up to this point I have emphasized form
and function, the two in this joint just as
firmly and demonstrably inter-related as
is the femoro-pelvo-vertebral complex in
our evaluation of the emergence of homi-
nid bipedalism. Here, then, is a n excellent
example of correlative data to be consid-
ered- as a n apt and clearly presented
analogue -in a lecture/lab course on
organic and human evolution.
But I go further in judging this book in
our field. Increasingly we, in many realms,
foray into medico-dental application. So
it is that Chapters on TM joint pathology
by Weinmann and Sicher (pp. 89-111),
on TM joint disorders by Brodie (pp. 133-
144) and by Thompson (pp. 146-181).
and the surgery of the TM joint by Sarnat
and Laskin (pp. 185-238) will serve to
highlight how the norms or standards we
may develop (in Primate growth research.
for example) may be put to work in the
services of Medicine and of Dentistry.
Anatomy took Physical Anthropology
from the charnel house into the laboratory.
It is up to us, in my opinion, to guide Phy-
sical Anthropology from the laboratory into
the amphitheaters of healing. This book
by Sarnat and his colleagues, even though
i t be but one single focus of analysis, mav
well highlight our avenues of approach
from basic research to service in the greater
realms of human welfare.
W. M. KROGMAN
Graduate School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCHES ON
THE SKELETONS OF THE RUDOLPH
PGCH BUSHMAN COLLECTION. Part
1: Origin of the Collection, Measure-
ments and Photographs of the Skulls.
By Helga-Maria Pacher. ( 2 Text figures,
7 Tables, 55 Plates.) Hermann Boh-
laus Successor - Graz - Vienna - Cologne,
Commission Publishing House of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna,
1961.
In the years 1907-1909 Rudolph Poch,
a Viennese physician-anthropologist, made