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Born March 29, 1869 • Czech Republic
Died September 5, 1943 (aged 74) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Subjects Of Study Indigenous American peoples • Neanderthal
The Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap, illustration by William Henry Holmes from Clarence E. Dutton's Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, 1882.
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Margaret Mead
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Kathy Reichs
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Frederic Ward Putnam.
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Earnest A. Hooton
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Goode, G. Brown
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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
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Louis S.B. Leakey
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Raymond A. Dart
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Broca, Paul
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Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
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Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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Robert J. Braidwood
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Oscar Howe
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