The Great LGM Bottleneck; Or, Has It Been Downhill Since the Days of the Gravettian Mammoth Hunters?

Because Europeans have been obsessed with 'the races of Europe' — the title of Ripley (1899); later echoed by Coon (1939) — and craniologists prevailed against philologists in identifying them after the professionalization of science in the late-nineteenth century, all human taxa (specific and subspecific) are still identified through craniology. This i…