Note the publisher and scope. It is a lay popular book.
The discussions here are usually so far away from the original research it is not possible to comment in any way.
The same bibliography also cites t.o., about equivalent to citing some creationist web site. MOS also has on its featured exhibit : Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
This is one of the finds made since I left grad school, so I haven't studied it directly. Some of the other ones I post I have actually studied the casts (Taung baby, Mrs. Ples, etc.).
You will probably find a lot of what you are looking for in American Journal of Physical Anthropology and similar sources.