Tobias in conversation: genes, fossils and anthropology

Phillip V. Tobias; Goran Štrkalj; Jane Dugard

Tobias in conversation: genes, fossils and anthropology

Phillip V. Tobias, Goran Štrkalj, Jane Dugard

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Johannesburg, South Africa
Publisher	Wits University Press
ISBN (Print)	9781868144778
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Tobias, Phillip V.--Interviews
Paleoanthropologists--South Africa--Interviews
Anatomists--South Africa--Interviews
Evolution--Religious aspects
Medical ethics--South Africa--Biography

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