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Born April 7, 1911 • Amersham • England
Died November 2, 1981 (aged 70) • Amersham • England
Subjects Of Study Piltdown man
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Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
William Henry Flower
William Henry Flower
British zoologist
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Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Keith
Scottish anthropologist
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
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Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
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Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist
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Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
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Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist
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William W. Howells
American anthropologist
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Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist
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Davidson Black
Canadian anthropologist
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Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
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Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
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Anders Adolf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist