Tobias in Conversation: Genes, Fossils and Anthropology Philip Tobias

ISBN: 9781868144778

Published: January 1st 2008

Paperback

344 pages

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Tobias in Conversation invites the reader to embark on a journey beyond time, often far beyond a human lifetime into the past, a journey through the life and work of Professor Phillip Tobias. It is based on a collection of interviews with theMoreTobias in Conversation invites the reader to embark on a journey beyond time, often far beyond a human lifetime into the past, a journey through the life and work of Professor Phillip Tobias.

It is based on a collection of interviews with the internationally acclaimed scientist, conducted and recorded over a period of six years. Tobias is first and foremost a human anatomist, and an important theme is his astonishingly broad-based approach to the teaching of anatomy.

Other interviews range across such topics 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.

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