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Earnest Albert Hooton
Earnest Albert Hooton
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As an early exponent of applied physical anthropology and human engineering, Hooton was responsible for improvements in clothing sizing, work space, and air frame and seating design. For years Earnest Hooton was the principal source of graduate students in physical anthropology and, through his students, was responsible for much of the growth and direction of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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Besides teaching introductory physical anthropology and iron-age archeology, he busied himself with descriptive analyses of skeletal remains, writing many acIclencia or technical notes to archeological reports and lecturing to alumni and professional groups on the relevance of physical anthropology to medicine and dentistry. Though clisquaTifiecl from military service because of his
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A RECORD OF RESEARCH During the 1920s, Hooton moved on from his earlier descriptions of individual skeletal remains found in the course of archeological digs and isolated fossil crania (like the La Quina skull) to metric and morphological analyses of large skeletal assemblages, including the remains of the ancient inhabitants of the Canary islands, originally collected in 1915.
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his attention to anthropometric surveys and anthropometric studies of living human beings, including a very large series of criminals measured in ten different states, and years later, an anthropometric survey of the Irish. Such studies represented a major management task, keeping track of workers at distant locations, a major accomplishment in ciata hancIling (thousands of completecI anthropometric and observational forms)
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From such endeavors Hooton was able to provide alternative employment for many of his students, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, for example, and at the Quartermaster Laboratories in Natick, so that academia was no longer the only source of jobs for physical anthropologists. OTHER LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS Besides technical monographs and book-length research reports (one over a thousand pages in length)
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primate behavior. Their titles were sufficiently catchy to attract a wicle and appreciative audience, and they were written in a friendly expository style so that students found them pleasant reacting despite the wealth of technical material en cl the polysyllabic Greco-Latin names bestowed!
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Hooton also expanded his statistics laboratory, beginning at the time he participated in the Civilian Military Corps during World War I, and with continuing cooperation of the International Business Machines Corporation thereafter, thus providing a facility for data reduction and data analyses without parallel in the field. Hooton excelled as a teacher, teaching all of the courses n physical anthropology himself until the postwar expansion of physical anthropology demanded additional course offerings.
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Besides hour-Ion" student conferences of the formal sort, Hooton hacI regular afternoon teas (especially on Saturciays) , which provided social interaction, good conversation, and the opportunity to meet visitors from around the worIci.
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That and some of the titles of his popular books (Apes, Men and Morons, The Twilight of Man, etc.) did not sit well with more conservative colleagues and publicity-averse members of the Harvard faculty, including Harvard president James Bryant Conant.
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unexpectedly of a vascular acciclent. Shortly before his cleath, Earnest Hooton expressed a desire to visit England once again to renew his acquaintance with Sir Arthur Keith, his old mentor and friend and "hear his cheerful voice again." This was an unusual clecision on Hooton's part, for he cletestecI travel except to the annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and his yearly treks to Pinehurst, North Carolina, to play golf.
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1 :53-76. 1925 The ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
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1932 Preliminary remarks on the anthropology of the American criminal.
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Age Changes and Selective Survival in Irish Males, eds.
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