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W. W. Howells (1908–2005)

Author of The Heathens: Primitive Man and His Religions

15+ Works 336 Members 1 Favorited

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Includes the name: William White Howells

Also includes: William Howells (1)

Image credit: W.W. Howells [credit: National Academy of Sciences]

Works by W. W. Howells

The Heathens: Primitive Man and His Religions (1948) 103 copies

Back of history; the story of our own origins (1954) 80 copies

Mankind in the Making: The Story of Human Evolution (1959) 52 copies

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution (1993) 26 copies

Mankind so far: Man's history; past, present, and probable future (1944) 22 copies

The Pacific islanders (Peoples of the world series) (1973) 14 copies

Evolution of the genus homo (1973) 12 copies

Ideas on human evolution, selected essays, 1949-1961 (1962) 8 copies

Man in the beginning : the story of our own origins (1956) 4 copies

Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo (1990) 4 copies

Människans härstamning 4 copies

Palaeoanthropology in the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC report ; no. 4) (1977) 3 copies

Cranial Variation in Man: A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference Among Recent Human Populations (1973) 2 copies

Craniometry and multivariate analysis : The Jomon population of Japan: a study by discriminant analysis of Japanese and Ainu crania 1 copy

Who's who in skulls : ethnic identification of crania from measurements (1995) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Origins of Chinese Civilization (1983) — Contributor — 12 copies

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1967 (2) Anchor Books (2) anthropology (41) archaeology (8) Armed Services Edition (3) biology (4) cultural anthropology (3) culture (3) ethnology (2) evolution (18) gift (2) hardcover (2) history (20) history of religion (2) human evolution (9) human origins (3) my-library (2) mythology (2) natural history (5) Natural History Library (2) non-fiction (15) Pacific (2) Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (2) physical anthropology (2) prehistory (8) professional collection (2) race (2) reference (4) religion (24) science (8)

Common Knowledge

Legal name: Howells, William White
Birthdate: 1908-11-27
Date of death: 2005-12-20
Gender: male
Education: Harvard University
Occupations: anthropologist
professor
Organizations: United States Navy (WWII)
Harvard University
American Museum of Natural History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Anthropological Association
Relationships: Howells, William Dean (grandfather)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Places of residence: Kittery Point, Maine, USA
Place of death: Kittery Point, Maine, USA
Associated Place (for map): Maine, USA

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Back of history; the story of our own origins (1954)

Mankind in the Making: The Story of Human Evolution (1959)

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Statistics

Works: 15
Also by: 1
Members: 336
Popularity: #70,810
Rating: 3.1

ISBNs: 22
Favorited: 1

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Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences author page

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Encyclopedia of World Biography author page (via Encyclopedia.com)

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