![]() ![]() Auel in her Earth"s Children series of books When asked what genre these works belonged in, Kurtén coined the term paleofiction to describe his oeuvre. He was also the author of a series of books about modern man"s encounter with Neanderthals, such as Dance of the Tiger (1978, 1980). One such thesis is that man did not descend from the ape.īy calling Propliopithecus a hominid, Kurten argues for a straight line from Propliopithecus to Ramapithecus and on to the “Dartians.” Since Propliopithecus predates the Dryopithecines, and the Dryopithecines were apes, our ancestors bypassed the apes in the early Miocene. In Not from the Apes (1971) Kurtén argued that man"s development has been separate from the apes since the Miocene, and that man did not descend from anthropoids, but rather the reverse: In the course of this book, Kurten discusses seven “theses” dealing with human evolution. He also spent a year as lecturing guest professor at Harvard University in 1971. ![]() ![]() He was a professor in paleontology at the University of Helsinki from 1972 up to his death in 1988. ![]()
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