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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > key people in anthropology > Sherwood I. Washburn
social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > physical/biological anthropology > Sherwood I. Washburn

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Sherwood I. Washburn  

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  • American physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn's greatest contribution to the field of anthropology was promoting genetics to explain both human variation and as an acting guideline for the basis of a New Anthropology (1951). He was also instrumental in both the fields of primatology and forensic anthropology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Washburn, Sherwood L.]

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