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Physical anthropology, sometimes called "biological anthropology," studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. See also: Race.Some of the early branches of physical anthropology, such as early anthropometry, are now rejected as pseudoscience. Metrics such as the cephalic index were used to derive behavioral characteristics. One of the earliest founders of scientific physical anthropology was Paul Pierre Broca.
1 Renowned paleoanthropologists
- Davidson BlackDavidson Black ( 1884 1934) was a Canadian anthropologist. He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China. He was known as in China. See also: Peking Man Black, Davidson Black, Davidson. (1884-1934)
- Robert BroomRobert Broom, M. November 30, 1866 April 6, 1951), born in Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland, was a South African physician and paleontologist. He received his Masters Degree in 1895 from the University of Glasgow. Broom was first known for his study of mammal-l (1866-1951)
- Raymond DartRaymond Dart ( February 4 1893- 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil of Australopithecus at Taung in Northwestern South Africa. He was born in Brisbane, Australia and studied at (1893-1988)
- Eugene DuboisEugene Dubois ( January 28, 1858 December 16, 1940) was a Dutch anthropologist, who earned world-wide fame with the discovery of Homo erectus in Java in 1891. Eugene Dubois was born in the town of Eijsden in the Netherlands in 1858. The son of a pharmacis (1858-1940)
- Donald C. Johanson (1943- )
- Louis LeakeyLouis Seymour Bazett Leakey ( August 7, 1903- October 1, 1972) was a British archaeologist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. Born in Kenya, he studied at Cambridge University, graduating in 1926. He discove (1903-1972)
- Mary LeakeyMary Leakey ( February 6 1913 December 9 1996) was a British physical anthropologist, who, with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape (that of a Proconsul specimen). For much of her career she worked with her husband Louis Leakey in the Olduv (1913-1996)
- Richard LeakeyRichard Erskine Frere Leakey (born December 19, 1944), son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, is a renowned Kenyan paleontologist and conservationist. Paleontology Richard Leakey started his career following in the footsteps of his famous parents with disco (1944- )
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
- Milford H. Wolpoff (1942- )
- Carleton S. Coon (1904-1981)
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