Phillip Tobias

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Phillip Tobias is affiliated with the following schools: Washington University in St. Louis, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Vienna

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According to Wikipedia, Phillip Vallentine Tobias was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences.

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The brain of Homo habilis: A new level of organization in cerebral evolution☆ (1987) (346)
The cranium and maxillary dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) boisei (1967) (338)
Sterkfontein member 2 foot bones of the oldest South African hominid. (1995) (251)
The Brain In Hominid Evolution (1970) (217)
The skulls, endocasts, and teeth of homo habilis (1993) (211)
The Fate of the "Classic" Neanderthals: A Consideration of Hominid Catastrophism [and Comments and Reply] (1964) (169)
The emergence of man in Africa and beyond (1981) (166)
U-Series dating of Liujiang hominid site in Guangxi, Southern China. (2002) (144)
A fossil skull probably of the genus Homo from Sterkfontein, Transvaal (1977) (127)
Endocranial features of Australopithecus africanus revealed by 2- and 3-D computed tomography. (1990) (121)
Early hominid dental remains from Members 4 and 5 of the Sterkfontein Formation (1966-1996 excavations): catalogue, individual associations, morphological descriptions and initial metrical analysis. (2006) (112)
A Comparison Between the Olduvai Hominines and those of Java and some Implications for Hominid Phylogeny (1964) (112)
Endocranial capacity in an early hominid cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa. (1998) (111)
Brain-size, grey matter and race--fact or fiction? (1970) (110)
Koobi Fora Research Project, vol. 4: Hominid Cranial Remains (1994) (108)
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia (2001) (97)
On the age of Border Cave 5 human mandible. (2003) (96)
An Acheulean Industry with Prepared Core Technique and the Discovery of a Contemporary Hominid Mandible at Lake Baringo, Kenya (1970) (95)
The negative secular trend (1985) (89)
Morphology and affinities of new hominin cranial remains from Member 4 of the Sterkfontein Formation, Gauteng Province, South Africa. (2002) (89)
The third partial skeleton of a late Pliocene hominin (Stw 431) from Sterkfontein, South Africa § (2003) (86)
Hip bone trabecular architecture shows uniquely distinctive locomotor behaviour in South African australopithecines. (1999) (85)
A large male hominin cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa, and the status of Australopithecus africanus. (1999) (80)
"Australopithecus afarensis" and A. Africanus: Critique and an alternative hypothesis (1980) (78)
Evolution of the Human Brain (2000) (78)
ESR dating studies of the australopithecine site of Sterkfontein, South Africa (1994) (77)
Description, new reconstruction, comparative anatomy, and classification of the Sterkfontein Stw 53 cranium, with discussions about the taxonomy of other southern African early Homo remains. (2006) (71)
Posterior lunate sulcus in Australopithecus africanus: was Dart right? (2004) (63)
Evidence for a dual pattern of cranial venous sinuses on the endocranial cast of Taung (Australopithecus africanus). (1988) (60)
The Olduvai Bed I Hominine with Special Reference to its Cranial Capacity (1964) (59)
Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Tool-Using and Tool-Making (1965) (59)
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia Colloquia in Human Biology and Palaeoanthropology (2001) (55)
Brief communication: Gladysvale: first early hominid site discovered in South Africa since 1948. (1993) (54)
The Distinctiveness of Homo habilis (1966) (53)
A chimpanzee-like tibia from Sterkfontein, South Africa and its implications for the interpretation of bipedalism in Australopithecus africanus (1996) (52)
The New Witwatersrand University Excavation at Sterkfontein: Progress Report, Some Problems and First Results (1969) (51)
Open house (1986) (49)
The brain in hominid evolution / Phillip V. Tobias. (1971) (48)
Brain Evolution in the Hominoidea (1975) (44)
New Discoveries in Tanganyika: Their Bearing on Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply] (1965) (44)
The Excavation of Mwulu's Cave, Potgietersrust District (1949) (42)
Physical anthropology and somatic origins of the Hottentots (1955) (42)
Pleistocene Deposits and New Fossil Localities in Kenya (1967) (40)
Cephalometric evaluation and measurement of the upper airway (2004) (39)
Cultural Hominization among the Earliest African Pleistocene Hominids (1968) (38)
The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa (1978) (37)
Re‐creating ancient hominid virtual endocasts by CT‐scanning (2001) (36)
History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa (1985) (35)
A further search for a secular trend of adult body size in South African blacks: evidence from the femur and tibia. (1987) (32)
The brain of the first hominids (1996) (31)
On the scientific, medical, dental and educational value of collections of human skeletons (1991) (31)
Skeletal Age and Growth of the Nasopharynx in the Sagittal Plane: A Cephalometric Study (2004) (30)
RECENT HUMAN BIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEGROES AND KHOISANS (1972) (29)
Fossil Hominid Remains from Ubeidiya, Israel (1966) (28)
The origins and past of modern humans-towards reconciliation : Kyoto 21-23 March 1996 (1998) (25)
Piltdown: An Appraisal of the Case against Sir Arthur Keith [and Comments and Reply] (1992) (24)
Cranial Capacity of Zinjanthropus and other Australopithecines (1963) (24)
The Kanam Jaw (1960) (24)
The Savannah hypotheses: origin, reception and impact on paleoanthropology. (2012) (23)
New Developments in Hominid Paleontology in South and East Africa (1973) (23)
An unusual case of right and left testicular arteries arching over the left renal vein. (1976) (23)
Early Man in East Africa (1934) (23)
Human growth in southern Zambia: a first study of Tonga children predating the Kariba dam (1957–1958) (2002) (22)
From Tools to Symbols: From Early Hominids to Modern Humans (2005) (22)
The mystery of the blue ostriches: Clues to the origin and authorship of a supposed rock painting (1994) (22)
A re-examination of the Kedung Brubus mandible (1966) (21)
From apes to angels : essays in anthropology in honor of Phillip V. Tobias (1990) (21)
Nomenclature of population groups in Southern Africa (1977) (21)
36. Bushmen of the Kalahari (1957) (20)
Bushmen and other non-Bantu peoples of Angola : three lectures (1965) (19)
Stature and secular trend among Southern African Negroes and San (Bushmen). (1975) (19)
Adult stature in southern African Negroes--further evidence on the absence of a positive secular trend. (1990) (19)
The Bearing of Fossils and Mitochondrial DNA on the Evolution of Modern Humans, with a Critique of the 'Mitochondrial Eve' Hypothesis (1995) (18)
APE-LIKE AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFTER SEVENTYYEARS: WAS IT A HOMINID?* (1998) (17)
Premature Discoveries in Science with Especial Reference to "Australopithecus" and "Homo Habilis" (1996) (16)
Carpal tunnel syndrome due to compression by an anomalous median artery. (1982) (16)
Some Aspects of the Multifaceted Dependence of Early Humanity on Water (2002) (16)
New Isotopic and Sedimentological Measurements of the Thabaseek Deposits (South Africa) and the Dating of the Taung Hominid (1993) (16)
The species Homo habilis : example of a premature discovery (1991) (15)
A re-examination of a human femur found at the Blind River Site, East London, South Africa: Its age, morphology, and breakage pattern (2008) (15)
The Upright Head in Hominid Evolution (1992) (15)
Saartje Baartman : her life, her remains, and the negotiations for their repatriation from France to South Africa : news & views (2002) (14)
Physique and body composition in Southern Africa (1972) (14)
Apartheid and medical education: the training of black doctors in South Africa. (1980) (14)
Earliest Homo not proven (1993) (13)
In memoriam: Mary Douglas Leakey (1913-1996). (1997) (12)
Response: faunal evidence and sterkfontein member 2 foot bones of early hominid. (1996) (12)
The environmental background of hominid emergence and the appearance of the genusHomo (1991) (11)
Fingerprints and Palmar Prints of Kalahari Bushmen (1961) (11)
The Kalahari and its lost city (1968) (11)
Homo habilis—A Premature Discovery: Remembered by One of Its Founding Fathers, 42 Years Later (2009) (10)
Faunal Evidence and Sterkfontein Member 2 Foot Bones of Early Hominid (1996) (10)
Men, Minds and Hands: Cultural Awakenings over Two Million Years of Humanity (1979) (10)
The Meaning Of Race (1961) (10)
Cranial Capacity of the Hominine from Olduvai Bed I (1965) (10)
Some comments on the case for Early Pleistocene hominids in South-Eastern Spain (1998) (10)
Bone breccias, bone dumps, and sedimentary sequences of the western Limeworks, Makapansgat, South Africa. (2007) (9)
Morphometric variations of the 7th cervical vertebrae of Zulu, White, and Colored South Africans (2010) (9)
“Dished Faces”, Brain Size and Early Hominids (1972) (9)
A New Species of Genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge (1965) (9)
Raymond Dart as a pioneering primatologist. (2008) (8)
The role of R. B. Thomson and E. P. Stibbe--brief heralds of the science of anatomy in South Africa. Part I. R.B. Thomson. (1990) (8)
Twenty questions about Human Evolution (2003) (8)
A preliminary examination of some new hominid upper limb remains from Sterkfontein (1974-1984) (1989) (8)
Studies on the occipital bone in Africa. V. The occipital curvature in fossil man and the light it throws on the morphogenesis of the bushman. (1959) (8)
The Skulls, Endocasts and Teeth of Homo Habilis. Olduvai Gorge, Volume IV (1992) (8)
More on the Fate of the "Classic" Neanderthals (1966) (8)
Ten climacteric events in hominid evolution (1985) (7)
GENETICS IN MEDICAL EDUCATION. (1964) (7)
Man: the Tottering Biped - the Evolution of His Posture, Poise and Skill (1982) (7)
Eightieth year of Peking Man : Current status of Peking Man and the Zhoukoudian site (2002) (7)
Multiple renal arteries. (1985) (7)
On Piltdown: The French Connection Revisited (1993) (7)
Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years after Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution (2018) (7)
Olduvai Gorge: Introduction (1967) (7)
Some little known chapters in the early history of the Makapansgat fossil hominid site (1997) (7)
Longevity, death and encephalisation among Plio-Pleistocene hominins (2006) (7)
Studies on the Occipital Bone in Africa: I Pearson's Occipital Index and the Chord-Arc Index in Modern African Crania: Means, Minimum Values, and Variability (1959) (6)
The role of R. B. Thomson and E. P. Stibbe--brief heralds of the science of anatomy in South Africa. Part II. E. P. Stibbe. (1990) (6)
An afro-european and euro-african human pathway through Sardinia, with notes on humanity’s world-wide water traversals and proboscidean comparisons (2002) (6)
On the Survival of the Bushmen: With an Estimate of the Problem Facing Anthropologists (1956) (6)
CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MIDDLE STONE AGE OF SOUTH AFRICA, AS REVEALED IN MWULU'S CAVE (1955) (6)
Bigeneric nomina: A proposal for modification of the rules of nomenclature (1969) (6)
Kariba re-settlement: an experiment in human ecology (1958) (6)
Functional, morphogenetic and phylogenetic significance of conjunction between cardioid foramen magnum and enlarged occipital and marginal venous sinuses (1992) (6)
Reflections on anatomy and physical anthropology. (1978) (5)
Commentary on the case for Early Pleistocene hominids in South-Eastern Spain (1999) (5)
Revisiting Water and Hominin Evolution (2011) (5)
Apartheid and Medical Education: The Training of Black Doctors in South Africa (1983) (5)
Olduvai Gorge: Acknowledgements (1967) (5)
The nasopharynx: review of structure and development, with notes on speech, pharyngeal hypophysis, chordoma and the dens. (1981) (5)
The brain in hominid evolution (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 38, 1969). (1971) (5)
The discovery of the Taung skull of Australopithecus africanus Dart and the neglected role of Professor R.B. Young (2006) (5)
The antiquity of man: human evolution. (1982) (5)
Man, Culture, and Environment (1991) (5)
The South African early fossil hominids and John Talbot Robinson (1923-2001) (2002) (5)
Raymond Arthur Dart (1893–1988) (1989) (5)
Studies on the occipital bone in Africa. IV. Components and correlations of occipital curvature in relation to cranial growth. (1959) (5)
Tooth material in the hominidae. (1988) (4)
The Institute for the Study of Man in Africa (1958) (4)
The dating of linguistic beginnings (1996) (4)
A member of the genus Homo from ʿUbeidiya (1966) (4)
Institute for the Study of Man in Africa (1971) (4)
J.C. Boileau grant and the changing face of anatomy (1992) (4)
Images of humanity: The selected writings of Phillip V. Tobias (1991) (4)
Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex: The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution (2001) (4)
Book Reviews: Chromosomes, Sex-Cells and Evolution in a Mammal. Based Mainly on Studies of the Reproductive Glands of the Gerbil and a new List of Chromosome Numbers of Mammals (1956) (4)
The life and times of Ralph von Koenigswald: Palaeontologist extraordinary (1976) (3)
The Nuffield–Witwatersrand University Expeditions to Kalahari Bushmen, 1958–59 (1959) (3)
287. On a Bushman-European Hybrid Family (1954) (3)
'Blue ostriches' captured (1992) (3)
Catastrophism and the history of life (2005) (3)
DARWIN, ‘DESCENT’ AND DISEASE (1972) (3)
Tobias in Conversation: Genes, Fossils and Anthropology (2008) (3)
The life and times of emeritus professor Raymond A. Dart. (1985) (3)
On the relative frequencies of hominid maxillary and mandibular teeth and jaws as taphonomic indicators (1987) (2)
The ownership of the Taung skull and of other fossil hominids and the question of repatriation (2005) (2)
The South African Medical and Dental Council and the “Biko doctors” (1980) (2)
The Piltdown skull forgery and Taung: rejection and acceptance in science - and new revelations on the identity of the forger (part I). (1991) (2)
The establishment of palaeo-anthropology in South Africa and China: with especial reference to the remarkably similar roles of Raymond A. Dart and Davidson Black (2001) (2)
The mountain gorilla: A little known chapter of pioneering studies (2003) (2)
Neocatastrophism, water and brains: a younger scientist (14th October 1925) pays homage to an older scientist (5th October 1925) (2004) (2)
Rock-Peckings with an Iron Age Settlement and Cemetery: A Brief Report on the Mooiplaas Site, Bronkhorstspruit District (1967) (2)
Hominid evolution : past, present, and future : proceedings of the Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium, Johannesburg and Mmabatho, Southern Africa, 27th January-4th February 1985 (1985) (2)
MEMORIES OF WALTER BAUMGARTEL (1902-1997) : PIONEERING PROMOTER OF THE MOUNTAIN GORILLAS OF UGANDA (1999) (2)
Biko's doctors (1980) (2)
On "Homo Habilis" (1966) (2)
The contributions of J. C. Boileau Grant to the teaching of anatomy. (1993) (2)
Conversion in Palaeo-Anthropology : The Role of Robert Broom, Sterkfontein and other Factors in Australopithecine Acceptance. (8th Robert Broom Memorial Lecture) (2001) (2)
Recent advances in Chinese palaeo-anthropology (2000) (2)
Timothy Cooper Partridge 1942-2009 : biographical memoir (2010) (1)
Frank Spencer (1941-1999), historian of physical anthropology and sleuth of Piltdown. (1999) (1)
Chapters of time in human evolution (2010) (1)
Olduvai Gorge: The basis cranii externa (1967) (1)
Paleoanthropology. Encore Olduvai. (2003) (1)
The age of the Border Cave 5 mandible (2003) (1)
Homo Habilis@@@Olduvai Gorge Volume 4. The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo habilis. (1992) (1)
HOMINID FOSSILS AS UNIVERSAL AND NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE: AN ESSAY ON PAST AND PRESENT ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE OWNERSHIP OF HOMINID FOSSILS AND THE QUESTION OF REPATRIATION (2010) (1)
Spirited evolutionist Robert Broom and Stellenbosch revisited on a zoological centenary (2005) (1)
An anthropologist looks at malaria. (1974) (1)
THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL COUNCIL AND THE "BIKO DOCTORS" (1980) (1)
A partial biochemical characterization of fossilized bone from Makapansgat, Swartkrans and Queen Charlotte Islands. (1975) (1)
Peter Ucko. Academic freedom and apartheid: the story of the World Archaeological Congress. xiv + 305 pages, 16 plates. 1987. London: Duckworth; ISBN 0-7156-2180-7 hardback £18, ISBN 0-7156-2191-2 paperback £9.95. New York: Plenum. (1988) (1)
African finds (1975) (1)
African Genesis: Academic genealogy (2012) (1)
On Arthur Keith's Cover: In Other Words (1993) (1)
The anatomy of hominization. (1981) (1)
Position of minimum shaft breadth in modern human femora (2005) (1)
Louis Leakey, self-styled White African: Appreciation and some personal recollections (2003) (1)
Memorable Moments with Louis Leakey (1978) (1)
Twenty-five years of The Adler museum of the history of medicine. (1987) (1)
29. Studies on the Occipital Bone in Africa: VI, the Relative Usefulness of Pearson's Occipital Index and the Occipital Chord-Arc Index. (1960) (1)
Interviewing a master human biologist (2009) (0)
Were the Lower and Middle Pleistocene europeans capable of spoken lenguage (1999) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: References (1967) (0)
Microsoft Word - FPR077BF.rtf (2008) (0)
Anti-apartheid protestors safe? (1986) (0)
The Medical Council and the “Biko Doctors” (1980) (0)
Cranial Capacity Of The Olduvai Bed I Hominine (1966) (0)
Cytological and cytogenetical studies on the testis of the gerbil, Tatera brantsii draco. (1952) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The cultural and phylogenetic status of Australopithecus boisei and of the australopithecines in general (1967) (0)
Disciplinary inquiries--a plea for change. (1977) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The structure of the face (1967) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The cranial vault (1967) (0)
One hundred years after Eugène Dubois: the Pithecanthropus Centennial at Leiden (1993) (0)
Systematics of Humankind. Palma 2000: an international working group on systematics in human paleontology (2000) (0)
Recent Studies on Sterkfontein and Makapansgat and Their Bearing on Hominid Phylogeny in Africa (1974) (0)
Sydney Brenner, Nobel laureate 2002: his early years at Wits (2003) (0)
Goodbye to professor Raymond Dart (1991) (0)
Archaeological split (1987) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The pneumatisation of the Zinjanthropus cranium (1967) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Editor's Note (1967) (0)
THE NOBEL PRIZES AND THEIR MEANING FOR THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA (1998) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The size of individual teeth, absolute and relative (1967) (0)
Old Teeth and Ancestors (1983) (0)
The case for more doctors. (1968) (0)
5. Raymond Arthur Dart: The Man Who Unwillingly Ushered in a Revolution in the Evolution of Humankind (2017) (0)
Some reflections on man's past and future. (1969) (0)
Retrospective: Francis Clark Howell (1925-2007). (2007) (0)
Some genetical aspects of hyperuricaemia and xanthinuria. (1972) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Certain critical angles and indices of the cranium (1967) (0)
MICHAEL KENT WRIGHT. (1961) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The morphology of the teeth (1967) (0)
Timothy Cooper Partridge FRSSAf 1942–2009 (2010) (0)
The life and work of Timothy Cooper Partridge, FRSSAf (1942-2009) : obituary (2010) (0)
In memoriam: Alun R. Hughes (1916-1992). (1993) (0)
The science writer and science (1965) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The pattern of dental attrition and occlusion, with comments on enamel hypoplasia (1967) (0)
In memoriam. Lawrence Herbert Wells. (1981) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The thickness of the cranial bones (1967) (0)
Some changes in anatomical nomenclature (1989) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The interior of the calvaria (1967) (0)
Response : Homo habilis (1965) (0)
Prehistory and politicl discrimination (1988) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The taxonomic status of Zinjanthropus and of the australopithecines in general (1967) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The crown shape index of the teeth (1967) (0)
Lawrence Herbert Wells (1908-1980) and the Wits anatomy department with some glimpses of his role in australopithecine unravelling. (1988) (0)
Report of Symposium of the Obstetric Group of S.A. Society of Physiotherapy (1974) (0)
Response : Faunal Evidence and Sterkfontein Member 2 Foot Bones of Early Hominid (1996) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Preservation and reconstruction of the cranium (1967) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Introductory Note (1967) (0)
The endocranial cast of Zinjanthropus (1967) (0)
Tribute to the late Professor Dr.g. h. r. von koenigswald (1983) (0)
Olduvai Gorge, Volume 4, Parts I-IX: The Skulls, Endocasts and Teeth of Homo Habilis (1993) (0)
Taxonomy of the Taung skull (reply) (1974) (0)
Francis Clark Howell Hon. FRSSAf 1925–2007 (2007) (0)
Honouring the prophets. (1993) (0)
Francis Clark Howell (1925-2007) (2007) (0)
A new higher primate cranium from Yunnan Province, South China (1981) (0)
The life and work of Timothy Cooper Partridge, FRSSAf (1942–2009) (2010) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Plate section (1967) (0)
Alun Rhun Hughes: a tribute after forty four years of companionship in Anatomy and Anthropology (1991) (0)
The gentle communicator: a tribute to Rose Melzer. (1992) (0)
International archaeological congresses. (1987) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Metrical characters of the calvaria as a whole (1967) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The size of the dentition as a whole (1967) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: The dental arcade and the palate (1967) (0)
The Australopithecines (1969) (0)
Olduvai Gorge: Summary of cranial and dental features of Zinjanthropus (1967) (0)

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