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PhD Anthropology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Loren Eiseley was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies. At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It (1961) (156)
Darwin's century (1961) (100)
The Immense Journey (1957) (84)
The star thrower (1978) (70)
SIGNIFICANCE OF HUNTING TERRITORY SYSTEMS OF THE ALGONKIAN IN SOCIAL THEORY (1939) (46)
The Unexpected Universe (1964) (38)
Early Man in the Eden Valley (1953) (37)
The Firmament of Time (1960) (34)
The Night Country (1961) (32)
A Field Study in Siam of the Behavior and Social Relations of the Gibbon (Hylobates Lar). (1941) (32)
Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists (1979) (29)
The Invisible Pyramid (1970) (26)
On a Piece of Chalk (24)
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life (1975) (23)
PALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF THE SCOTTSBLUFF BISON QUARRY AND ITS ASSOCIATED ARTIFACTS (1935) (23)
The Man Who Saw Through Time (1973) (21)
Archaeological Observations on the Problem of Post-Glacial Extinction (1943) (14)
Fossil Man and Human Evolution (1955) (13)
Man the Fire-Maker (1954) (11)
The Mind As Nature (1962) (11)
Pollen Analysis and Its Bearing upon American Prehistory: A Critique (1939) (7)
Neanderthal Man and the Dawn of Human Paleontology (1957) (6)
LAND TENURE IN THE NORTHEAST: A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF A CONCEPT (1947) (6)
AN ADDED NOTE ON THE SCOTTSBLUFF QUARRY (1936) (6)
Notes of an Alchemist (1972) (6)
An Extreme Case of Scaphocephaly from a Mound Burial near Troy, Kansas (1944) (6)
Man: The lethal factor (1965) (5)
INDEX MOLLUSCA AND THEIR BEARING ON CERTAIN PROBLEMS OF PREHISTORY: A CRITIQUE (1937) (5)
The Judgment of the Birds (1984) (5)
THE MASTODON AND EARLY MAN IN AMERICA. (1945) (4)
EARLY MAN IN SOUTH AND EAST AFRICA (1948) (4)
INDIAN MYTHOLOGY AND EXTINCT FOSSIL VERTEBRATES (1945) (4)
Francis Bacon and the modern dilemma (1958) (4)
The Piltdown forgery. By J. S. Weiner. Oxford University Press, London. 1955 (1956) (4)
Anthropology Today an Encyclopedic Inventory.@@@An Appraisal of Anthropology Today. (1954) (4)
Myth and Mammoth in Archaeology (1945) (4)
Tempo and mode in evolution. By George Gaylord Simpson. Columbia University Press, New York City, 1944. 217 pp. of text, bibliography, and index. 36 figures, 19 tables. Price $3.50 (1945) (3)
THE FREEDOM OF THE JUGGERNAUT. (1965) (3)
Men, mastodons, and myth. (1946) (3)
THE FIRE‐DRIVE AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE FAUNA (1946) (3)
Activism and the rejection of history. (1969) (3)
Fossil man: a personal credo. (1952) (3)
Is Man Alone in Space (1953) (3)
EVIDENCES OF A PRE-CERAMIC CULTURAL HORIZON IN SMITH COUNTY, KANSAS. (1939) (3)
Francis Bacon as Educator: He inspired the creation of the Royal Society and foresaw the rise of modern science (1961) (2)
Climate and Evolution. William Diller Matthew. Second, revised edition edited by Edwin H. Colbert. Preface by Wm. King Gregory. (Special Publication of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. I, 1939.) (1941) (2)
Man of the future (1969) (2)
Book Reviews: Man in Search of His Ancestors. The Romance of Paleontology; In Search of Adam. The Story of Man's Quest for the Truth about His Earliest Ancestors (1956) (2)
THE FIRE AND THE FAUNA (1947) (2)
Alfred Russel Wallace (1914) (1)
The Beggar. By Harlan W. Gilmore. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940. 235 pp. $2.50 (1941) (1)
PANEL DISCUSSION--MIRROR TO MAN: MAN'S ADAPTATION TO HIS EXPANDING ENVIRONMENT. (1965) (1)
A Neglected Anatomical Feature of the Foxhall Jaw (1943) (1)
POST-GLACIAL CLIMATIC AMELIORATION AND THE EXTINCTION OF BISON TAYLORI. (1942) (1)
Men on the Move. By Nels Anderson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. 339 pp. $3.00 (1941) (1)
Book Reviews: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; Forerunners of Darwin (1959) (1)
SOME PALEONTOLOGICAL INFERENCES AS TO THE LIFE-HABITS OF THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES. (1943) (1)
The Antiquity of Modern Man (1935) (1)
The pleistocene period: Its climate, chronology and faunal successions. By Frederich E. Zeuner. Ray Society Monograph No. 130, 278 pp. of text, 76 figures, index and biblography, 1945. (Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London) (1946) (1)
The Shape of likelihood : relevance and the university (1970) (1)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. Michael T. Ghiselin (1970) (1)
What Price Glory? The Counterplaint of an Anthropologist (1943) (1)
Charles Lyell. (1959) (1)
The Last Million Years. A. P. Coleman. edited by George F. Kay. (University of Toronto Press, 1941.) (1942) (1)
Oreopithecus: Homunculus or Monkey? (1956) (1)
Is Man here to Stay (1950) (1)
Pseudo-Fossil Man (1943) (1)
All the night wings (1979) (1)
The Innocent Assassins (1973) (1)
Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1962 (1963) (0)
Back Matter (1958) (0)
An Apache Life-Way. By Morris E. Opler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941. 479 pp. $5.00 (1942) (0)
Book Reviews:Archaeological Studies of the Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania, by Donald Cadzow (1937) (0)
Centennial of Discovery of Neanderthal Man. (1956) (0)
Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Survey (1953) (0)
Racial and Phylogenetic Distinctions in the Intertemporal Interangular Index (1943) (0)
Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1964 (1965) (0)
Man's Poor Relations. By Earnest Hooton. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. 391 pp. $5.00. Illustrated (1943) (0)
Indian Experiences. By DeCost Smith. (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1943. 387 pp. Illustrations. $4.00.) (1943) (0)
On the Decline of Species (1971) (0)
The Folsom Mystery (1942) (0)
The Fauna of Papago Springs Cave, Arizona, and A Study of Stockoceros; With Three New AntUocaprines from Nebraska and Arizona. Morris F. Skinner. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 80, pp. 143-220, 1942.) (1944) (0)
Who Were Our Ancestors (1943) (0)
Book Review: The Lost Americans. By Frank C. Hibben (1947) (0)
Franz Weidenreich, 1873–1948 (1949) (0)
The mind as nature, New York (Harper & Row) 1962. (1962) (0)
Miscellaneous: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology. M. F. Ashley Montagu (1946) (0)
Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory.@@@An Appraisal of Anthropology Today. (1954) (0)
Sinanthropus pekinensis : The Extremity Bones of Sinanthropus Pekinensis . By Franz Weidenreich. Paleontologia Sinica New Series D. No.5. 82 pp. 20 tables. 34 plates. Peking, 1941. (1942) (0)
Unfairly Eclipsed (1966) (0)
Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1965 (1966) (0)
Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1967 (1968) (0)
Another Kind of Autumn (1977) (0)
The Ethic of the Group (1960) (0)
The unknown Darwin (1959) (0)
The Evolution of Evolutionary Thought (1959) (0)
More on Wisdom vs. Knowledge (1960) (0)
NORTH AMERICA: The Eskimos. KAJ BIRKET-SMITH (1937) (0)
Early Man in America: Index to Localities and Selected Bibliography. Sellards E. H.(Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 51, pp. 373–432. 1940). (1941) (0)
Francis Bacon as educator. (1961) (0)
Dating the past: An introduction to geochronology. By Frederick E. Zeuner. Methuen, London, 385 pp. of text, 24 plates, 103 diagrams, bibliography and index, 1946 (1947) (0)
On the Human Condition (1978) (0)
Penobscot Man. By Frank G. Speck. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. 312 pp. $4.00. Illustrated (1940) (0)
The Stone Age of Mount Carmel: The Stone Age of Mount Carmel . Vol. II. By Theodore D. McCown And Sir Arthur Keith. 390 pp., 88 tables, 247 illustrations, 28 plates. Appendix, bibliography and index. Oxford University Press, 1939. $20.00. (1940) (0)
MISCELLANEOUS: Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch. Richard Foster Flint (1948) (0)
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Myopia: The Man Who Saw Through Time (1974) (0)
Man's Family Tree: Ideas on Human Evolution . Selected essays, 1949-1961. William Howells, Ed. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1962. xiii + 555 pp. Illus. $10. (1962) (0)
The illustrated world of Thoreau (1976) (0)
Ideas on Human Evolution. Selected essays, 1949-1961. William Howells, Ed. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1962. xiii + 555 pp. Illus. $10 (1962) (0)
Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1961 (1962) (0)
Man, time, and prophecy /Loren Eiseley (1966) (0)
Man's Unknown Ancestors: The Story of Prehistoric Man. Raymond W. Murray (1944) (0)

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