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Born July 25, 1884 • Toronto • Canada
Died March 15, 1934 (aged 49) • Beijing • China • (Anniversary in 2 days)
Subjects Of Study Peking man
Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist
Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist
William W. Howells
American anthropologist
Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist
Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Flower, 1883
Sir William Henry Flower
British zoologist
Kenneth Oakley
English anthropologist, geologist, and paleontologist
Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Keith
Scottish anthropologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist

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