Hrdlička
Americannoun
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Aleš Hrdlička, a Bohemian-born anthropologist, became the institution’s first curator of physical anthropology in 1904.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
In the early 1900s, the U.S.-based anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička helped to found the modern study of human bones.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2018
The skeletons Hrdlička studied were categorized as either male or female, seemingly without exception.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2018
If the process could continue for a few hundred years more, Dr. Hrdlička thinks, it might reach a point where one could speak of the members of old American families as of a distinct stock.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
It is only within the last few months that the first trustworthy evidence on the point has appeared, in the careful measurements of Hrdlička who has demonstrated that Spencer was quite wrong in his statement.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
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