Article ID: CBB001320474

Phillip V. Tobias (1925--2012) (2012)

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In his 1888 Royal Society remembrance, Thomas Huxley noted that Charles Darwin might have become a physician but for his professor whose anatomy lectures were as dull as he was himself. Evolutionary biology has much to thank for Darwin's inadequate medical instruction. Thankfully for human evolutionary studies, the opposite happened at South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), where Phillip Tobias was inspired by the anatomist Raymond Dart. In his words, for more than 40 years, Dart was a kind of father figure and surrogate academic parent to me. Tobias went on to become legendary for research, scholarship, principles, and educational impacts. Africa has now lost one of her greatest scientists.

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Authors & Contributors
Damiano, Luisa
Zwart, Hub
Reno, Joshua O.
Peeters, Susan
Hicks, Esther K.
Kauzya, John Mary
Concepts
Human evolution
Physical anthropology
Science and society
Climate change
Human genetics
Fossils
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Africa
Uganda
South America
United States
Europe
Asia
Institutions
African Virtual University
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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