Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology
by
Tobias, Phillip V.
Title
:
Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology
Author
:
Tobias, Phillip V.
ISBN
:
9781868144778
Personal Author
:
Tobias, Phillip V.
Publication Information
:
Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
:
xiii, 330 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
General Note
:
Includes index.
Abstract
:
This book invites the reader to embark on a journey through the life and work of internationally acclaimed scientist, Professor Phillip Tobias. The book is based on a collection of interviews with Tobias over a period of six years. Tobias is first and foremost a human anatomist, and an important theme is his astonishingly broad-based approach to the teaching of anatomy. Other interviews range across such topics 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.
Personal Subject
:
Tobias, Phillip V.-Interviews.
Subject Term
:
Paleoanthropologists -- South Africa -- Interviews.
Anatomists -- South Africa -- Interviews.
Evolution -- Religious aspects.
Medical ethics -- South Africa -- Biography.
Added Author
:
Štrkalj, Goran.
Gugard, Jane.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025410446 | 569.9092 T629T 2008 | 1 |