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Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification. Hooton conducted detailed research on physical and racial characteristics, and used his data to develop wide-reaching analyses of the racial components of American Indians and, more controversially, to ...
Hooton was responsible for improvements in clothing siz-ing, work space, and air frame and seating design. For years Earnest Hooton was the principal source of graduate stu-dents in physical anthropology and, through his students, was responsible for much of the growth and direction of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Applied and social sciences magazines. Hooton, Earnest A. views 2,252,916 updated. Hooton, Earnest A. WORKS BY HOOTON. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY. From 1913 until he died in 1954, Earnest Albert Hooton taught anthropology at Harvard.
Overview. The Earnest A. Hooton papers include correspondence and manuscripts relating to Hooton's research activities as curator at the Peabody Museum and member of the Department of Anthropology.
Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, a group that "focused on the anatomy of blacks and reflected the racism of the time."
Abstract. This chapter presents a biographical sketch of Earnest Albert Hooton. This is followed by a discussion of his contributions to paleopathology. Hooton's influence in American physical anthropology is usually judged as being greatest as a teacher of a large and diversified cadre of graduate students.
EARNEST ALBERT HOOTON November 20, 1887-May 3, 1954 BY STANLEY M. GARN AND EUGENE GILES OVER FOUR DECADES Earnest Albert Hooton became known nationally and internationally for his contributions to the study of human evolution, for his comprehensive com- parisons of nonhuman primates, and for his management of mass-scale anthropometric studies ...
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