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Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape.
Apr 30, 2024 · Earnest A. Hooton was an American physical anthropologist who investigated human evolution and so-called racial differentiation, classified and described human populations, and examined the relationship between personality and physical type, particularly with respect to criminal behaviour.
Feb 12, 2013 · You can place Earnest A. Hooton in the latter school of thought. The January 1950 issue of Redbook magazine included the predictions of Hooton, a pioneering and often controversial...
Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification. Hooton conducted detailed research on physical and racial characteristics, and used his data to develop wide-reaching analyses of the racial components of American Indians and, more controversially, to ...
EARNEST ALBERT HOOTON November 20, 1887–May 3, 1954 BY STANLEY M. GARN AND EUGENE GILES O VER FOUR DECADES Earnest Albert Hooton became known nationally and internationally for his contributions to the study of human evolution, for his comprehensive com-parisons of nonhuman primates, and for his management
From 1913 until he died in 1954, Earnest Albert Hooton taught anthropology at Harvard. Born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, in 1887, he lived in a succession of small towns in the state, moving from one to another as his father, a Methodist minister, received calls from various churches.
This chapter presents a biographical sketch of Earnest Albert Hooton. This is followed by a discussion of his contributions to paleopathology. Hooton's influence in American physical anthropology is usually judged as being greatest as a teacher of a large and diversified cadre of graduate students.
