biography
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Birdsell, J(oseph) B(enjamin)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908– )
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| biography:
| Physical anthropologist, born in South Bend, Indiana, USA. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1947–75), his long-term research in Australia led to his trihybrid theory (1967) that Australian aborigines derive from three separate circum-Pacific populations. |
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