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Title: Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology
Publisher: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 160102 Biological (Physical) Anthropology 220299 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields not elsewhere classified
Author/Creator: Tobias, Phillip V
Author/Creator: Štrkalj, Goran
Author/Creator: Dugard, Jane
Description: 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 Keyword: 160102 Biological (Physical) Anthropology
Subject Keyword: 220299 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields not elsewhere classified
Subject Keyword: Tobias, Phillip V.--Interviews
Subject Keyword: Paleoanthropologists--South Africa--Interviews
Subject Keyword: Anatomists--South Africa--Interviews
Subject Keyword: Evolution--Religious aspects
Subject Keyword: Medical ethics--South Africa--Biography
Resource Type: book
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Health and Chiropractic

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