William W. Howells

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birth_date = November 27, 1908
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death_date = December 20, 2005
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field = anthropology
work_institutions = Harvard University
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Dr 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.

Howells, grandson of the novelist William Dean Howells, was born in New York City. 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. 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. He worked at Harvard from 1954 until his retirement in 1974.

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

Works

*cite book | first = William W. | last = Howells | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1944 | title = Mankind So Far
*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 | authorlink = William W. Howells | year = 1992 | title = Getting Here | publisher = The Compass Press | location = Washington, D.C.

References

*cite news|title=William W. Howells; Anthropologist Advanced Studies of Humans|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801470.html|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=2005-12-29|date=2006-01-16
*cite web|title=William White Howells|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041252|work=Encyclopaedia Britannica online|accessdate=2006-01-16
*cite web|title=Wiley Interscience: Journal: Abstract|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110484338/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0e|org=Wiley Interscience|accessdate=2006-01-16
*cite web|title=AAA Past Presidents|org=American Anthropological Association|url=http://www.aaanet.org/pastpres.htm|accessdate=2006-01-16
*cite web|title=William and Muriel Howells Endow Peabody Museum Directorship|org=Harvard University Gazette|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/01.22/WilliamandMurie.html|accessdate=2006-01-16