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Grafton Elliot Smith
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- Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) was an Australian British anatomist and physical anthropologist, prominent both as an early student of human brain evolution and as a late advocate of a reductive, naive theory of human cultural history. Life and Career Educated in medical anatomy first in Sydney and then subsequently at Cambridge, Smith moved to Cairo and taught anatomy from 1899 to 1908, where he studied ancient mummies and became infatuated with the idea of the Egyptians as the source of ancient civilization. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Smith, Grafton Elliot]
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