Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology /
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Johannesburg, South Africa :
Wits University Press,
[2008]
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| 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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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781868144778 (pbk.) 1868144771 (pbk.) |