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- catalog abstract ""One of the founders of modern human biology and physical anthropology, Gabriel W. Lasker holds a well-established place in the history of science. In a classic article published in Science in 1969, Lasker advanced the idea of plasticity, the process of human adaptation to stressful environments by a series of modifications to the body during the course of physical growth and development. This concept was a factor that led the scientific community to give up its reliance on the notion of genetically fixed racial types." "As he documents the rapidly changing field of anthropology and some of its leading figures, Lasker gives his readers a peek inside the lives of people who have defined what it means to be human - and one of those people is himself."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11224072.
- catalog contributor b11224073.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""One of the founders of modern human biology and physical anthropology, Gabriel W. Lasker holds a well-established place in the history of science. In a classic article published in Science in 1969, Lasker advanced the idea of plasticity, the process of human adaptation to stressful environments by a series of modifications to the body during the course of physical growth and development. This concept was a factor that led the scientific community to give up its reliance on the notion of genetically fixed racial types." "As he documents the rapidly changing field of anthropology and some of its leading figures, Lasker gives his readers a peek inside the lives of people who have defined what it means to be human - and one of those people is himself."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Michael A. Little -- 1. Family Background and Early Years -- 2. Unemployed and Off to China -- 3. First Exposure to Anthropology -- 4. The Long Trip Home for Graduate Study -- 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 6. Hooton's Students -- 7. The Anatomy Department at Harvard -- 8. Conscientious Objection -- 9. The First Years in Detroit -- 10. Teaching Anthropology -- 11. The New Physical Anthropology and the Old -- 12. Editing and Publishing -- 13. Bernice "Bunny" Kaplan -- 14. Fieldwork in Mexico -- 15. Peru -- 16. Meetings and Congresses -- 17. Personalities -- 18. Associates -- 19. Biological Anthropology in Britain -- 20. Other Countries -- 21. Human Biological Variation -- 22. Major Changes in the Field -- 23. Looking Back.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 223 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0814328407".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Detroit, Mich. : Savoyard Books,".
- catalog subject "2007 E-255".
- catalog subject "Anthropologists Biography.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology".
- catalog subject "Anthropology, Physical Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology, Physical.".
- catalog subject "GN 50.6 L345h 1999".
- catalog subject "GN50.6.L37 A3 1999".
- catalog subject "Kaplan, Bernice A.".
- catalog subject "Lasker, Gabriel Ward.".
- catalog subject "Physical anthropologists Biography.".
- catalog subject "Physical anthropology History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Michael A. Little -- 1. Family Background and Early Years -- 2. Unemployed and Off to China -- 3. First Exposure to Anthropology -- 4. The Long Trip Home for Graduate Study -- 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 6. Hooton's Students -- 7. The Anatomy Department at Harvard -- 8. Conscientious Objection -- 9. The First Years in Detroit -- 10. Teaching Anthropology -- 11. The New Physical Anthropology and the Old -- 12. Editing and Publishing -- 13. Bernice "Bunny" Kaplan -- 14. Fieldwork in Mexico -- 15. Peru -- 16. Meetings and Congresses -- 17. Personalities -- 18. Associates -- 19. Biological Anthropology in Britain -- 20. Other Countries -- 21. Human Biological Variation -- 22. Major Changes in the Field -- 23. Looking Back.".
- catalog title "Happenings and hearsay : experiences of a biological anthropologist / Gabriel Ward Lasker ; with a foreword by Michael A. Little.".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".