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portada Descargar ficha PDF Título: Tobias In Conversation. Genes, Fossils And Anthropology
Autor: Tobias Phillip V/ Strkalj Goran/ Dugard Jane Precio: $450.00
Editorial: Wits University Press Año: 2009
Tema: Antropologia, Fosiles, Genetica Edición: 1ª
Sinopsis ISBN: 9781868144778
Phillip V. Tobias is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School and Fellow of the Royal Society (London). His international achievements include: Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award; Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations; Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA); Commander, National Order of Merit of France and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.The book, written in the first person, is based on a collection of interviews with Tobias conducted and recorded over a period of six years. Topics include 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 SA in 1966; Tobias' political activism and medical ethics; and his personal philosophy concerning religion and evolution.

About the Author
Jane Dugard is a Cambridge-trained biologist. Goran Strkalj is a biological anthropologist in the Department of Health and Chiropractic at Macquarie University, Sydney.
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