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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, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN50.6.T63 A5 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 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.
- Subject
- Tobias, Phillip V. > Interviews
- Tobias, Phillip V
- Paleoanthropologists > South Africa > Interviews
- Anatomists > South Africa > Interviews
- Evolution > Religious aspects
- Human evolution
- Fossil hominids
- Medical ethics > South Africa
- Physical anthropology
- Evolution (Biology)
- Anthropology, Physical
- Biological Evolution
- physical anthropology
- evolution
- Physical anthropology
- Anatomists
- Evolution > Religious aspects
- Fossil hominids
- Human evolution
- Medical ethics
- Paleoanthropologists
- South Africa
- Genre/Form
- Interview
- interviews.
- Interviews
- Interviews.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- 1. Principles and Beliefs -- 2. Curiosity and Creativity -- 3. Bold Initiatives -- 4. Politics and Protest -- 5. Evolution and Religion -- 6. Genetics and Expeditions -- 7. Cambridge and Kanam -- 8. East African Hominids -- 9. Homo habilis and the Leakeys -- 10. Monkeys, Baboons and Apes -- 11. Anatomy and Apartheid -- 12. Anatomist -- 13. In Form and Moving -- 14. Living and Growing -- 15. Typology and Race -- 16. Mentor -- 17. Culmination -- 18. On Human Dignity -- Some Milestones in the Career of Phillip V. Tobias -- Right Lateral View of Human Skull -- Anterior (Front) View of Human Skeleton -- Timeline of Fossil Hominids.
- ISBN
- 9781868144778
- 1868144771
- LCCN
- 2009451477
- OCLC
- ocn277024677
- 277024677
- SCSB-1520666
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library