biography
pronunciation:
[herdlichka]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1943)
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| biography:
| Physical anthropologist, born in Humpolec, C Czech Republic. He arrived in the USA in 1882, studied medicine and anthropology, and joined the American Museum of Natural History (1899–1903). He then moved to the National Museum of Natural History (1903–43), becoming curator from 1910. His extensive anatomical research led to his being one of the first to argue that North and South American Indians derived from a racial stock that originated in Asia and migrated to the Americas across the Bering Strait. |
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