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Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology /
- Title
- Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology / Phillip V. Tobias, with Goran Štrkalj & Jane Dugard.
- Author
- Tobias, Phillip V.
- Publication
- Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xiii, 330 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Based on a collection of interviews with Tobias over a period of six years, on topics such as research into the physical anthropology of living peoples; studies of mammalian chromosomes; an invitation from Louis and Mary Leakey to describe all the hominid fossils they discovered; the identification, description and naming of Homo habilis; re-opening of the Sterkfontein fossil site in 1966; Tobias's political activism and medical ethics; and his personal philosophy concerning religion and evolution.
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- Note
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781868144778 (pbk.)
- 1868144771 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library