Tobias in conversation : genes, fossils and anthropology

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Title:

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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Phillip V. Tobias is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School and Fellow of the Royal Society (London). His international achievements include: Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award; Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations; Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA); Commander, National Order of Merit of France and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.The book, written in the first person, is based on a collection of interviews with Tobias conducted and recorded over a period of six years. Topics include 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 SA in 1966; Tobias' political activism and medical ethics; and his personal philosophy concerning religion and evolution.