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STANLEY MARION GARN
STANLEY MARION GARN
Pages 124-135
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Garn became interested in science early in life by reading books from the Rochambeau branch of the Providence Public Library, only three blocks from his house. He received books on home science and even some chemistry sets from his cousins.
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Two of his violin teachers even contributed to his scientific education; one introduced him to carboniferous fossils and another to the rudiments of photography, which was to play a role in his career with newspapers and the Polaroid Corporation. Garn acquired a broad but eclectic knowledge of the history of science in high school, saying, "I was very weak in theoretical and quantitative aspects, but strong in taxonomy and materia medica." Garn entered Harvard in 1939 and found the wealth of opportunities positively overwhelming, noting that "it was Anthropology and specifically Physical Anthropology that captured my attention for it dealt with people and human biological variability and evolutionary practice and primates.
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The first choice was to stay with Polaroid, transferring to the new camera division; the second choice was to become a scientific writer elsewhere; and the third was to return to graduate work full-time with the goal of getting a Ph.D. He was even described as a "famous anthropologist" at that time in some of the Polaroid advertising copy; because he borrowed part of the Polaroid 77 design from Eskimo "sunglasses" in Harvard's Peabody Museum.
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Through this work Garn also met Fuller Albright, Nathan Talbot, and Joe Aub, all three of whom helped him on later hair research. In 1947 Garn began his second part-time job at the Forsyth Dental Infirmary in Boston.
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, long-time professor of paleontology at Harvard University and a monthly columnist for Natural History magazine for over a quarter of a century. Some of the anti-evolutionary ethos that Gould represented in dealing with the human fossil record may have been derived from Hooton's outlook at Harvard as transmitted in the Antioch classroom by Stanley Garn.
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In 1968 Garn was offered a newly created position at the University of Michigan, as a fellow of the Center for Human Growth and Development. Not long before coming to the University of Michigan he was elected president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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in anthropology from Harvard University 1947-1952 Anthropologist, Forsyth Dental Infirmary, Boston 1948 Aleutian Islands field research 1948 Ph.D. in anthropology, Harvard University 1948-1952 Instructor in anthropology, Harvard University 1950-1952 Director, Forsyth Face Size Project, Army Chemical Corps 1952-1968 Associate Professor and Professor of Anthropology, Antioch College 1952-1968 Chairman of the Department of Growth and Genetics, Fels Research Institute 1968-1993 Fellow of the Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan; 1968-1993 Professor of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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International Organization for the Study of Human Development Human Biology Association International Association of Human Biologists American Society for Nutritional Science (Fellow) National Academy of Sciences
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Body weight versus weight standards in coronary artery disease and in a healthy group.
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Negro-white differences in permanent tooth emergence at a constant income level.
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:40-46. 1990 Will calcium supplementation preserve bone integrity?
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