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.


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