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- 1950-10 March 1970 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence, reprints and notes relating to an academic dispute about [fossils of teeth and statistical methods to study them] (1950s), which involved publications by Bronowski and W M Long, and the possibility of using similar statistical methods for skulls (c. 1970s).
Correspondents are Professor W E Le Gros Clark (Department of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford), Professor S Zuckerman (Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham), Professor Lancelot Hogben (Department of Medical Statistics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham), Professor W W Howells (American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University), F Yates (Department of Statistics, Rothamsted Experimental Station), Professor J T Robinson (Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa), George B Barbour (University of Cincinnati), Professor R A Dart (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Professor S L Washburn (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley), F Clark Howell (The University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology), K A Joysey (University Museum of Anthropology, Cambridge), Professor Dr Mario Cappieri (Rome, Italy), Professor J D Boyd (University of Cambridge, Anatomy School), W M Long (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Dr J C Trevor (lecturer in Anthropology, University of Cambridge), K P Oakley (Department of Geology, British Museum), and S A Barnett (Department of Zoology, the University of Glasgow).
Includes reprints of 'The Australopithecine Milk Canines' (Nature, 8 Aug 1953, vol. 172), 'Statistical Methods in Anthropology' (Nature, 3 Nov 1951, vol. 168) and 'Statistics of discrimination in anthropology' (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 4, Dec 1952) by Bronowski and W M Long, and related articles by other authors.
Also includes: a press release (1953) from Science Service (The Institution for the Popularization of Science, Washington D C) about Bronowski and Long's work on applying statistical methods to the study of fossilised teeth; press cuttings on the discovery of a skull in the Olduvai Gorge by Dr L S B Leakey (1959) and finds in South Africa by Dr Kenneth Oakley (1953); and annotated galley proofs of 'Statistical Methods in Anthropology' and 'The Australopithecine Milk Canines' by Bronowski and Long.
Additionally includes a letter from the BBC on Bronowski agreeing to help in a feature on 'The Impact of the Physical Sciences' (Jan 1952).