Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone for his speech, Hooton warned, "The anthropologist is a little lay-brother of the physician, and anyone who asks a little brother's advice may expect to get an earful...
...Only the medical practitioner is competent to pass biological and sociological judgment upon fitness for marriage, necessity for divorce, hereditary capabilities, expectancy of life, and cause of death," the anthropologist maintained...
...theory about the original peopling of Australia, in conflict with the general belief that the Australian aboriginal bushmen represent a single homogeneous race, was reported last night in a lecture here, by Joseph B. Birdsell, physical anthropologist of the Peabody Museum of Anthropology...
...first report of a year-long Harvard expedition to Australia, which traveled more than 10,000 miles on the continent and took physical measurements of some 2,500 aborigines, will be made tomorrow night by Joseph B. Birdsell, physical anthropologist of the Peabody Museum at 8 o'clock tonight in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Died. Professor Eugene Dubois, 82, Dutch anthropologist who in 1891 found the first skull of the Java ape man, concluded he had discovered the "missing link," called it Pithecanthropus erectus; in Haelen, Belgium. Dr. Dubois's find started the '905' hottest scientific controversy, from which, for reasons of piety, he suddenly withdrew, locking up his fossils from the world's sight until 1926. Thereafter, despite important new evidence, he held that Java Man was no more than an early...