Research topic: Earnest Albert Hooten

Earnest Albert Hooten , 1887-1954, American anthropologist, b. Clemansville, Wis.; grad. Lawrence College, 1907, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1911, Rhodes scholar, 1910-13. He began teaching at Harvard in 1913 and became professor of anthropology in 1930, a post he held until his death. Hooten is known particularly for his researches on early man and primates. He also sought by meticulous study to establish scientifically a correlation between body build and social, cultural, and racial factors. He is the author of Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands (1925), Up from the Ape (1931, rev.... Read more