Images of humanity: The selected writings of Phillip V. Tobias

ISBN: 9781874800231

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ashanti Pub, January  1 1991

Hardcover, 431 pages

This is a valuable collection of the writings of an acclaimed academic who made important contributions to the sciences and humanities. Always wary of intense specialization, Tobias over the years fostered an interest in the human, social, anthropological and historical sciences. His early studies were in medicine, his PhD was awarded for his thesis - 'Chromosomes, Sex-Cells and the Evolution of the Gerbil'. He was a visiting Professor at Cambridge University. Includes: The Science Writer and Science, 25 years of the Adler museum of the History of Medicine, Darwin - 'Descent' - Disease, New Species of Genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge, The Brain of Homo Habilis, Human Biological Research, Bushmen of the Kalahari, Trends in the Evolution of Mammalian Chromosomes, Race, Freedom Apartheid and Medical Education.