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Sherwood I. Washburn  

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  • American physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn's greatest contribution to the field of anthropology was promoting genetics to explain both human variation and as an acting guideline for the basis of a New Anthropology (1951). He was also instrumental in both the fields of primatology and forensic anthropology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Washburn, Sherwood L. (1911–2000)]

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