Despite the fact that Gorjanović's achievement has been brought to light fairly well, neither a historical-anthropological analysis nor a synthesis of his paleoanthropological work has ever been made in the form and scope presented here. This work examines and presents Gorjanović's scientific interpretations contained in his paleoanthropological work, based both on his views on the morphology of the Krapina Early Man and his evolutionary views on the Krapina Early Man as a direct ancestor of modern humans. Consequently, analyses and syntheses of Gorjanović's study of neurocrania, viscerocrania and postcrania have been presented. The study of Gorjanović's views on neurocrania shows that the difference of Gorjanović' measuring methods, from those proposed by other authors is due to the definition of some linear variables. Hence some craniological and goniometric values differ from the ones which are ussually used by modern authors. In the process of examination of the correlation between the so-called Gorjanović's "primitive" features of the Krapina Early Man and pleziomorphic ones found on Neanderthal cranial and postcranial anatomy certain similarities with definitions proposed by some modern outhors have been observed. Consequently, Gorjanović's definition of the low forehead with supraorbital tori, as a primitive one, correlates with Lewin's definitions of these features on Neanderthal crania as pleziomorphic. Gorjanović's definition of the lower arm torsion could be placed within the framework of Trinkaus's pleziomorphic pattern of functional features of upper limbs due to the increased cubital strain, in more abducted and flected positions. As to Gorjanović's evolutionary views, his interpretation of the so-called transitional features, has been jointly presented in the light of new theories on the origin of modern man for the first time. On the basis of recent findings, interpretation of the "global" multiregional evolution, according to which Neanderthals were a part of the gradual evolutionary lineage leading to modern man could not be supported. In northwestern Croatia, however, some traces of regional continuity could be supposed to exist, probably as the result of mixing of Neanderthals and modern populations.

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Knjiga je recenzirana 2007. godine i prihvaćena za tisak sa službenom potvrdom od strane izdavača Davida Davisona (Arcaeopress, Oxford).