William W. Howells
William W. Howells | |
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| Born | William White Howells November 27, 1908 Earnest A. Hooton |
| Doctoral students | Paul T. Baker C. Loring Brace Henry Harpending Robert Jurmain Henry McHenry[1] |
William White Howells (November 27, 1908 – December 20, 2005) was a professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
Howells, grandson of the novelist
Chicago Tribune Tower, and Abby MacDougall White.[2] He graduated with an S.B. in 1930 and obtained a doctorate from Harvard in 1934 and worked for the American Museum of Natural History.[3] He lectured at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1937 to 1954, serving as a lieutenant in the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II.[4]
He taught at Harvard from 1954 until his retirement in 1974.
He was president of the American Anthropological Association in 1951.[5] In 1998, with his wife Muriel Seabury, Howells endowed the directorship of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard.[6]
Honors
Howells was a member of the
Selected works
Books
- Howells, William W. (1944). Mankind So Far. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
- Howells, William W. (1948). The Heathens; Primitive Man and his Religions. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
- Howells, William W. (1954). Back of History: The Story of our own origins. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
- Howells, William W. (1959). Mankind in the Making: The Story of Human Evolution. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
- Howells, William W. (1962). Ideas on Human Evolution: Selected Essays, 1949–1961. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Howells, William W. (1973). Evolution of the Genus Homo. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
- Howells, William W. (1973). The Pacific Islanders. New York: Scribners.
- Howells, William W. (1992). Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution. Washington, D.C.: The Compass Press.
Monographs
- Howells, William W. (1973). Cranial Variation in Man: A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference Among Recent Human Populations.
- Howells, William W. (1989). Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo.
- Howells, William W. (1995). Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurements.
References
- ^ PMID 19003896.
- ^ "Obituaries for Thu. December 22, 2005". seacoastonline.com. December 22, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "William W. Howells". britannica.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "William W. Howells; Anthropologist Advanced Studies of Humans". The Washington Post. December 29, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "AAA Past Presidents". americananthro.org. American Anthropological Association. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ a b "William and Muriel Howells Endow Peabody Museum Directorship". news.harvard.edu. 22 January 1998. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- PMID 18186504.
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