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...Earnest Albert Hooton believes that human behavior, though it may be influenced by environment, has a fundamental basis in organic constitution, that is, in hereditary endowment. An affable and brilliant scientist who heads Harvard's world-famed Department of Anthropology, Dr. Hooton points out that a chimpanzee and a man behave differently not because their environments are different but because they are born with different anatomical equipment...
...behavior of criminals differs radically and conspicuously from that of law-abiding people; therefore Hooton boldly set out in 1926 to get anthropological data on criminals. His trained field workers spent three years collecting it, and another nine years were spent at Harvard analyzing it. Now Anthropologist Hooton is ready to release his findings. The Harvard University Press is to publish a huge technical monograph in three volumes for scientists. For laymen, many-sided Dr. Hooton last week published a shorter and simpler book, Crime and the Man* which put the salient facts of his investigation in lighter form...
Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy; Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology; Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology; Ernest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and director of the summer school, were among the signers of the manifesto...
Crime, war, oppression, and the other social cataclysms of the world may be traced to the "degenerate trends in human evolution which are producing millions of animals of our species inferior in mind and body," Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, declared in a Lowell Lecture last night...
...Columbia Medical Center in 1930. Three years later he got a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From 1933 to 1935 he was a National Research Council fellow in Anthropology. The next year he was statistical and anthropometric research assistant to Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology. For the past year he was research assistant in the Fatigue Laboratory...