Hrdlička

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Aleš Hrdlička, a Bohemian-born anthropologist, became the institution’s first curator of physical anthropology in 1904.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the early 1900s, the U.S.-based anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička helped to found the modern study of human bones.

From Slate

The skeletons Hrdlička studied were categorized as either male or female, seemingly without exception.

From Slate

Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind them, particularly pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

From Nature

Given the poor stratigraphic data recorded from the Piltdown excavation, Hrdlička even intimated that the cranium might be a modern burial that had been incorporated into older strata.

From Scientific American