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Speaking before a meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in New Haven last night, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, found no one answer on physical bases for the subject of his address, "What is an American...
...lake dwellings. Still being explored is a royal crannog where Irish kings held court for two centuries. To get a complete picture of Irishmen old & new, Harvard scientists are making anthropological measurements and sociological observations of thousands of living inhabitants. The whole project is directed by Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooton (TIME, March 30 et ante...
From Anthropology, believes Dr. Hooton, Medicine might gather valuable knowledge of evolutionary origins, from which spring many of man's present physical difficulties. "Man," says the author of Up From the Ape, "is a made-over animal. . . . His ancestors have functioned as arboreal pronogrades [moving on all fours] and brachiators, or arm-progressing tree-dwellers-not to mention more remote stages involving other changes of habitat, posture and locomotion. This protean history has necessitated repeated patching and reconstruction of a more or less pliable and long-suffering organism. The bony framework has been warped and cramped and stretched...
Constructively, Dr. Hooton proposes an Institute of Clinical Anthropology, presumably to be financed by one of "those great philanthropic foundations which alternately establish and allow to perish . . . institutes for research to promote human betterment." Besides growth, old age, immunity and susceptibility, the institute would study norms and variations in physical, mental and nervous structure. New research channels would be fully developed.,: In orthopedics, for example, X-rays and slow-motion pictures would be used to investigate posture and gait from birth to death. The staff would include some physical anthropologists, whose special training and points of view are essential...
Concludes Dr. Hooton: "One might define such an institute as an organization devoted to the purpose of finding out what man is like biologically when he does not need a doctor, in order further to ascertain what he should be like after the doctor has finished with him. I am entirely serious when I suggest that it is a very myopic medical science which works backward from the morgue, rather than forward from the cradle...