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Earnest Albert Hooton, November 20, 1887May 3, 1954 | By Stanley M. Garn and Eugene Giles | Biographical Memoirs |
 | | Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, on November 20, 1887, the third child and only son of an English-born Methodist minister married to a Canadian-born woman of Scotch-Irish ancestry. |
 | | Hooton also operated an anthropometric booth at the New York World's Fair, gathering novel dimensional data on the visitors, and he was involved in annual anthropometric studies on Harvard freshmen, extending investigations originally initiated by Dudley Sargent at the turn of the century. |
 | | As a result, Hooton's students were diverse in their interests, some excelling in primate comparisons; some concentrating on prehistoric and protohistoric skeletal remains and skulls; other working in population biology, demography, and the secular (generational) changes of Americans or immigrant populations; and some in human genetics and histology. |
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