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'''William White Howells''' (November 27, 1908 – December 20, 2005) was a professor of [[anthropology]] at [[Harvard University]]. His most notable research concluded that modern humans are of one [[species]].
'''William White Howells''' (November 27, 1908 – December 20, 2005) was a [[professor]] of [[anthropology]] at [[Harvard University]].


Howells, grandson of the novelist [[William Dean Howells]], was born in [[New York City]], the son of [[John Mead Howells]], the [[architect]] of the [[Chicago Tribune Tower]], and Abby MacDougall White.<ref name="SCObit">{{cite web|url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20051222/Obituaries/312229996|title=Obituaries for Thu. December 22, 2005|newspaper=seacoastonline.com|date=December 22, 2005|accessdate=October 19, 2015|quote=}}</ref> He graduated with an [[Bachelor of Science|S.B.]] in 1930 and obtained a [[doctorate]] from [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1934 and worked for the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref name="Britannica">{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/William-W-Howells |title=William W. Howells |newspaper=britannica.com|accessdate= October 19, 2015}}</ref> He lectured at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] from 1937 to 1954, serving as a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="WaPoObit">{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801470.html|title=William W. Howells; Anthropologist Advanced Studies of Humans|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 29, 2005|accessdate=October 19, 2015}}</ref> He taught at Harvard from 1954 until his retirement in 1974.
Howells, grandson of the novelist [[William Dean Howells]], was born in [[New York City]], the son of [[John Mead Howells]], the [[architect]] of the [[Chicago Tribune Tower]], and Abby MacDougall White.<ref name="SCObit">{{cite web|url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20051222/Obituaries/312229996|title=Obituaries for Thu. December 22, 2005|newspaper=seacoastonline.com|date=December 22, 2005|access-date=October 19, 2015}}</ref> He graduated with an [[Bachelor of Science|S.B.]] in 1930 and obtained a [[doctorate]] from [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1934 and worked for the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref name="Britannica">{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/William-W-Howells |title=William W. Howells |newspaper=britannica.com|access-date= October 19, 2015}}</ref> He lectured at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] from 1937 to 1954, serving as a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="WaPoObit">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801470.html|title=William W. Howells; Anthropologist Advanced Studies of Humans|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 29, 2005|access-date=October 19, 2015}}</ref> He taught at Harvard from 1954 until his retirement in 1974.


He was president of the [[American Anthropological Association]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1628 |title=AAA Past Presidents|newspaper=americananthro.org|publisher=American Anthropological Association|accessdate=October 19, 2015}}</ref> In 1998, with his wife Muriel Seabury, Howells endowed the directorship of the [[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology]] at Harvard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/01.22/WilliamandMurie.html|title=William and Muriel Howells Endow Peabody Museum Directorship|newspaper=news.harvard.edu|date=22 January 1998|accessdate= October 19, 2015}}</ref> "Professor Howells had a moderating effect" over the origins of modern humans as he "tended toward the [[Recent African origin of modern humans|Noah's Ark theory]]."<ref name="NYTObit">{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/us/william-w-howells-leading-anthropologist-is-dead-at-97.html|title=William W. Howells, Leading Anthropologist, Is Dead at 97 |newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 30, 2005|author=Saxon, Wolfgang|accessdate=October 19, 2015}}</ref>
He was president of the [[American Anthropological Association]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1628 |title=AAA Past Presidents|newspaper=americananthro.org|publisher=American Anthropological Association|access-date=October 19, 2015}}</ref> In 1998, with his wife Muriel Seabury, Howells endowed the directorship of the [[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology]] at Harvard.<ref name ="Gazette">{{cite web |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/01.22/WilliamandMurie.html|title=William and Muriel Howells Endow Peabody Museum Directorship|newspaper=news.harvard.edu|date=22 January 1998|access-date= October 19, 2015}}</ref>


== Works ==
== Honors ==
Howells was a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and won many notable awards. He received the [[Viking Fund Medal]] in 1954; the Distinguished Service Award of the [[American Anthropological Association]] in 1978 and was honored by that association again in 1993 with the establishment of the William W. Howells Book Prize. In 1992 he won the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[American Association of Physical Anthropologists]].<ref name="Godfrey2008">{{cite journal|last1=Godfrey|first1=Laurie R.|title=From the shoulders of a giant: Perspectives on the legacy of William White Howells (1908–2005)|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=137|issue=S47|year=2008|pages=118–126|issn=0002-9483|doi=10.1002/ajpa.20951|pmid=19003896|url=http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1129&context=anthro_faculty_pubs|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name ="Gazette"/><ref name="McHenryDelson2008">{{cite journal|last1=McHenry|first1=Henry M.|last2=Delson|first2=Eric|title=Obituary: William White Howells (1908–2005)|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=135|issue=3|year=2008|pages=249–251|issn=0002-9483|doi=10.1002/ajpa.20777|url=http://pages.nycep.org/ed/download/pdf/2008a.pdf|pmid=18186504}}</ref>


== Selected works ==
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* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1944 | title = Mankind So Far}}
=== Books ===
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* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1948 | title = The Heathens; Primitive Man and his Religions}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1954 | title = Back of History| publisher = Doubleday & Co. | location = New York }}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1944 | title = Mankind So Far | publisher = Doubleday & Co. | location = Garden City, New York}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1959 | title = Mankind in the Making}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1948 | title = The Heathens; Primitive Man and his Religions | publisher = Doubleday & Co. | location = Garden City, New York }}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1992 | title = Getting Here | publisher = The Compass Press | location = Washington, D.C. }}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1954 | title = Back of History: The Story of our own origins| publisher = Doubleday & Co. | location = Garden City, New York }}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1959 | title = Mankind in the Making: The Story of Human Evolution | publisher = Doubleday & Co. | location = Garden City, New York}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1962 | title = Ideas on Human Evolution: Selected Essays, 1949–1961 | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge, MA}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1973 | title = Evolution of the Genus Homo | publisher = Addison-Wesley | location = Reading, MA}}
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* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1973 | title = The Pacific Islanders | location = New York | publisher = Scribners}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1992 | title = Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution | publisher = The Compass Press | location = Washington, D.C. }}

=== Monographs ===
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1973 | title = Cranial Variation in Man: A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference Among Recent Human Populations}}
* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1989 | title = Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo}}
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* {{cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | author-link = William W. Howells | year = 1995 | title = Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurements}}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/howells-william.pdf National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir]
*[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/howells-william.pdf National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir]
*[http://web.utk.edu/~auerbach/HOWL.htm William W. Howells Craniometric Data Set]


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For other people named William Howells, see William Howells (disambiguation).
William W. Howells
Born
William White Howells

(1908-11-27)November 27, 1908
New York City
DiedDecember 20, 2005(2005-12-20) (aged 97)
Kittery Point, Maine
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral advisorEarnest A. Hooton
Doctoral studentsPaul T. Baker
C. Loring Brace
Henry Harpending
Robert Jurmain
Henry McHenry[1]

William White Howells (November 27, 1908 – December 20, 2005) was a professor of anthropology at Harvard University.

Howells, grandson of the novelist William Dean Howells, was born in New York City, the son of John Mead Howells, the architect of the Chicago Tribune Tower, and Abby MacDougall White.[2] He graduated with an S.B. in 1930 and obtained a doctorate from Harvard in 1934 and worked for the American Museum of Natural History.[3] He lectured at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1937 to 1954, serving as a lieutenant in the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II.[4] He taught at Harvard from 1954 until his retirement in 1974.

He was president of the American Anthropological Association in 1951.[5] In 1998, with his wife Muriel Seabury, Howells endowed the directorship of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard.[6]

Honors

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Howells was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and won many notable awards. He received the Viking Fund Medal in 1954; the Distinguished Service Award of the American Anthropological Association in 1978 and was honored by that association again in 1993 with the establishment of the William W. Howells Book Prize. In 1992 he won the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.[1][6][7]

Selected works

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Books

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  • Howells, William W. (1944). Mankind So Far. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
  • Howells, William W. (1948). The Heathens; Primitive Man and his Religions. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
  • Howells, William W. (1954). Back of History: The Story of our own origins. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
  • Howells, William W. (1959). Mankind in the Making: The Story of Human Evolution. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
  • Howells, William W. (1962). Ideas on Human Evolution: Selected Essays, 1949–1961. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Howells, William W. (1973). Evolution of the Genus Homo. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Howells, William W. (1973). The Pacific Islanders. New York: Scribners.
  • Howells, William W. (1992). Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution. Washington, D.C.: The Compass Press.

Monographs

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  • Howells, William W. (1973). Cranial Variation in Man: A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference Among Recent Human Populations.
  • Howells, William W. (1989). Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo.
  • Howells, William W. (1995). Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurements.

References

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  1. ^ a b Godfrey, Laurie R. (2008). "From the shoulders of a giant: Perspectives on the legacy of William White Howells (1908–2005)". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 137 (S47): 118–126. doi:10.1002/ajpa.20951. ISSN 0002-9483. PMID 19003896.
  2. ^ "Obituaries for Thu. December 22, 2005". seacoastonline.com. December 22, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  3. ^ "William W. Howells". britannica.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  4. ^ "William W. Howells; Anthropologist Advanced Studies of Humans". The Washington Post. December 29, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  5. ^ "AAA Past Presidents". americananthro.org. American Anthropological Association. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  6. ^ a b "William and Muriel Howells Endow Peabody Museum Directorship". news.harvard.edu. 22 January 1998. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  7. ^ McHenry, Henry M.; Delson, Eric (2008). "Obituary: William White Howells (1908–2005)" (PDF). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 135 (3): 249–251. doi:10.1002/ajpa.20777. ISSN 0002-9483. PMID 18186504.
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