Tobias in conversation
Subtitle: genes, fossils and anthropology
By: Phillip V. Tobias, with Goran Štrkalj & Jane Dugard.
Contributors: Štrkalj, Goran.; Dugard, Jane.
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781868144778
Subjects: Tobias, Phillip V. -- Interviews; Paleoanthropologists -- South Africa -- Interviews; Anatomists -- South Africa -- Interviews; Evolution -- Religious aspects; Medical ethics -- South Africa -- Biography
Genres: Interviews; Biography
Description: Based on a collection of interviews with Tobias over a period of six years, on topics such as research into the physical anthropology of living peoples; studies of mammalian chromosomes; an invitation from Louis and Mary Leakey to describe all the hominid fossils they discovered; the identification, description and naming of Homo habilis; re-opening of the Sterkfontein fossil site in 1966; Tobias's political activism and medical ethics; and his personal philosophy concerning religion and evolution.
Notes: Includes index.