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...Unfortunately," said Harvard's famed Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) last week, "I am, unaware of any marked improvement of man's evolutionary status since the end of the glacial period...
...eight years, while he has sat in Cambridge ruefully pondering man's fate. Dr. Hooton's assistants have gone out to make anthropometric measurements of some 20,000 criminals in ten states. From their data he finds not only that criminals are physically marked off from the general population-chiefly by inferiority of bodily dimensions-but that there is "well nigh incredible relationship of body build to nature of offense." An example: First-degree murderers differ from other criminals in being older, heavier, taller, with bigger chest and head circumferences, narrower foreheads, longer and narrower noses, broader jaws...
Professor Ernest A. Hooton of the department of Anthropology was guest speaker at the Harvard Club of Berkshire banquet in Pittsfield, Mass. last week. Professor Hooton spoke on the subject, "What is an Anthropologist...
...years ago a man sent his son to college with the instructions to get a good foundation in business so he could make himself a millionaire. About that time prosperity was in full bloom, but since it has backed around the corner, ideas have changed, and today, Professor Hooton thinks, more and more sons are being urged to study Philosophy, History, and the classics. The idea seems to be that a full brain is a more dependable thing than a full pocketbook...
...Advisers to the Expedition are: Professor Joseph Barcroft, Cambridge, England; Dr. Hellinut De Terra, Yale University; Lawrence J. Henderson, professor of Biological Chemistry; Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology; Professor August Krogh, Copenhagen University; Professor Alfred Redfield, Harvard University; Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, Rockefeller Institute...