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...stalwart old man, anthropologically a typical Alpine-globular head; wide-set eyes; square jaw; deep-set dark brown eyes; blobby, short-tipped, turned-down nose; broad shoulders; short, thick-set body; straight hair-boarded a boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest...
...anthropologist's interest in items human is protean. Neatly arranged cases, cupboards and drawers at the Smithsonian Institution contain 1.500 human skeletal remains which Dr. Hrdlicka has collected. In filing cabinets are his records of American whites and Negroes, of Egyptians and Slavs (he is a Bohemian), of peoples in Peru, Mexico, Asia, of little understood midgets. A small cabinet, labeled tetrapodisis and still only meagrely filled, contains the case histories of children who ambled, like little animals, on hands and feet before they walked upright (TIME, Jan. 6 & Jan. 27, 1930). The "walking-on-all-fours" records form...
When Mr. Leakey's latest news of Oldoway reached the U. S. last week, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists were about to hold their third annual meeting at the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, president of the body, dismissed the information with: ''It will be best for everyone interested to await scientific confirmation." His associates proceeded to discuss among other things: The Nose of the American Negro (Dr. George Dee Williams, St. Louis;; The Clavicle of the American Negro (Dr. Robert James Terry, St. Louis); Body Proportions of Adult Catarrhine Primates (Dr. Adolph Hans Schnltz, Baltimore...
...President Osborn sat down, Curator Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced hurdlitchka) of the U. S. National Museum, an anthropologist, rose to rebut: "There is endless chance for further evolution and it is going on. To assume that the evolution of man is ended blocks every road to the future. . . . There is that [Biblical] belief that man was created and not evolved. Sometimes it is subconscious. But it has its effect...
...study is intended as a means of clarifying and bringing together the hitherto scattered findings of a host of the world's most outstanding investigators such as Richard Owen, Geoffroy St. Hilaire. Ales Hrdlicka. R. Selenka, Paul Matschie, L. Bolk, Lord Rothschild. Sir Arthur Keith, and D. G. Elliot...