William Curtis Farabee | |
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Born | Washington County, Pennsylvania | February 7, 1865
Died | June 25, 1925 Washington, Pennsylvania | (aged 60)
Education | Pennsylvania Western University, California, Waynesburg College, Harvard University |
Known for | Demonstrating Mendelian inheritance in humans; Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru |
Spouse |
Sylvia Manilla Holdren
(m. 1897) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physical anthropology, human genetics |
Thesis | Heredity and Sexual Influences In Meristic Variation: A Study of Digital Malformations in Man |
Doctoral advisor | William E. Castle |
William Curtis Farabee (1865–1925), the second individual to obtain a doctorate in physical anthropology from Harvard University, engaged in a wide range of anthropological work during his time as a professor at Harvard and then as a researcher at the University Museum, Philadelphia, but is best known for his work in human genetics and his ethnographic and geographic work in South America.