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Word: anthropometrists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian Institution's famed Ales Hrdlicka is a physical and geographical anthropologist. In range and volume of work and weight of influence, Dr. Hrdlicka would stand alone in the U. S. except for one man. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Environmentalist | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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