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1 9/24/12 Phillip Vallentine Tobias 9/24/12 PHILLIP VALLENTINE TOBIAS (1925-2012): LIST OF PUBLICATIONS • This is an edited version of Phillip Tobias’ office publication list. • If papers in refereed journals have been published verbatim in a second peer- reviewed publication the subsequent publication is referred to after the primary citation. • When papers in peer-reviewed journals or edited volumes have been reprinted in collections of papers intended for student use (i.e., as “textbooks”) these have not been included. • Book forewords are only cited for the first edition. • For articles in both English and Afrikaans that have the same citation, only the English version is included. • Entries in Phillip Tobias’ office publication list that relate to non academic lectures/talks have been excluded (e.g., manuscripts of speeches at school speech and prize days) • Encyclopedia entries for individuals are included in “BIOGRAPHIES and OBITUARIES” (i.e., other biographies, formal obituaries, remembrances, etc.) • Previous attempts have been made to assemble a formal list of Phillip Tobias’ publications. See the “published works” of Phillip V. Tobias in From Apes to Angels: Essays in Anthropology in Honor of Phillip V. Tobias. G. Sperber, ed. (1991) New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 315-341. Many of PVT’s publications (plus a list of his publications – see above), are available in Images of Humanity: Selected Writings of Phillip V. Tobias. (1991) Ashanti Publishing, pp. 1-431. • I have made an attempt to assign Phillip Tobias’ books and peer-reviewed publications to these broad subject categories: Anatomy Teaching (An), Archaeology (Ar), Genetics (G), History of Paleoanthropology (H), Human Biology (HB), Morphology (M), Paleoanthropology (incl. paleoenvironment, paleopathology, sites, taphonomy, etc.) (Pa), Paleoneurology (Pn) and Systematics (S). • When more than one subject category is listed for a publication they are listed in alphabetical order, not necessarily in the order of relevance. • When publications have a co-author, or co-authors, Phillip Tobias’ name is in bold. • Please, if you notice mistakes or any other inaccuracy, please email [email protected] and we will rectify it. 1 BOOKS (AUTHORED and EDITED) 1. 1956 Chromosomes, sex-cells and evolution in a mammal. (G) London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. Ltd. 2. 1963 Man’s Anatomy (with M. Arnold). Vols. I and II. (An) Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 3. 1964 Man’s Anatomy (with M. Arnold), Vol. III. (An) Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 4. 1965 Bushmen and other non-Bantu people of Angola, by (HB) Antonia de Almeida. P.V. Tobias and J. Blacking, eds. Johannesburg: Institute for the Study of Man in Africa. 5. 1967 Olduvai Gorge – Volume II, The cranium and maxillary (Pa) dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) boisei. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-264 + 44 Plates. 6. 1968 Man’s Limbs, a study in dissection (with M. Arnold). (An) Second edition. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, pp. 1-356. 7. 1971 The brain in hominid evolution. (Pn) New York and London: Columbia University Press, pp. xv, 1- 170. 8. 1973 Special issue of Journal of Human Evolution in honor (Pa) of Professor R.A. Dart, on the occasion of his 80th birthday: “Palaeoanthropological Progress, Problems and Perspectives”. P.V. Tobias, ed. London/New York: Academic Press. Journal of Human Evolution, 2 (6): 417-577. 9. 1976 Les plus anciens hominides. (Pa) P.V. Tobias and Y. Coppens, eds. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, pp. 1-465. 10. 1978 The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern (HB) Africa. P.V. Tobias, ed. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, pp. viii + 1- 206. 11. 1981 The evolution of the human brain, intellect and spirit. (Pa) 1st Andrew Abbie Memorial Lecture. Adelaide, Australia: University of Adelaide, pp. 1-70. 2 12. 1982 Man, the tottering biped: the evolution of his posture, (An) poise and skill. D. Garlick, ed. Sydney, Australia: Committee in Postgraduate Medical Education. The University of New South Wales, pp. 1- 74. 13. 1984 Dart, Taung and the ‘missing link’. (H) Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press for the Institute for the Study of Man in Africa, pp. 1-67. 14. 1985 Hominid evolution: past, present and future. (Pa) P.V. Tobias, ed. Proceedings of the Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium. New York: Alan R. Liss Inc., pp. vxxiv, 1-499. 15. 1991 Olduvai Gorge, Vols. 4A and 4B. The skulls, endocasts (Pa) and teeth of Homo habilis. Cambridge University Press, pp. i-xxxiii, 1-921 +104 plates. 16. 1992 Paleo-Antropologia. (Pa) Milano, Italy: Editoriale Jaca Book, pp. 1-175. 17. La Paleoanthropologie. (Pa) Paris: Editions Mentha, pp. 1-91. 18. 1998 Terminologia Anatomica – International Anatomical (N) Terminology. P.V. Tobias and other members of FCAT (Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology). Stuttgart/New York, pp. i-x and 1-292. 19. Abstracts of Contributions to the Dual Congress (HB, Pa) 1998. M.A. Raath, H. Soodyall, D. Barkham, K.L. Kuykendall, and P.V. Tobias, eds. Johannesburg: Organising Committee, Dual Congress, 1998, pp. 1-153. 3 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS and EDITED VOLUMES 1. 1947 The characterization of the spermatogonial chromosomes (G) of the albino rat (Rattus norvegicus albinus). South African Journal of Science, 43: 312-319. 2. 1949 The excavation of Mwulu’s Cave, Potgieterstust District. (Ar) South African Archaeological Bulletin, 13: 2-13. 3. 1953 Trends in the evolution of mammalian chromosomes. (G) South African Journal Science, 50: 134-140. 4. The problem of race determination: limiting factors in the (HB) identification of the South African races. Journal of Forensic Medicine, 1: 113-123. 5. 1954 The sex chromosomes of the Gerbil, Tatera brantsii draco. (G) South African Journal of Science, 50: 228-254. 6. Extra-chromosomal chromatin in the germ cells. (G) South African Journal of Medical Science, 19: 57-58. 7. Blue Sclerae, fragilitas osseum, arachnodactyly and (G, HB) deafness in an Indian family. Americal Journal of Human Genetics, 6: 270-273. 8. Climatic fluctuations in the Middle Stone Age of South (Ar) Africa, as revealed in Mwulu’s cave. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 34: 325-334. 9. On a Bushman-European hybrid family. (G) Man, 54: 179-182. 10. The Taaibosch Koranas of Ottosdal: a contribution to (HB) the study of the Old Yellow South Africans. South African Journal of Science, 51: 263-269. 11. 1955 Taurodontism in a Bushman skull from Kimberley. (M) British Dental Journal, 98: 352-355. 12. Teeth, Jaws and Genes. (G, M) March 1955. Journal of the Dental Association of South Africa, 1-17. 13. Physical anthropology and somatic origins of the (HB) Hottentots. African Studies, 14: 1-15. 4 14. 1955 Les Bochimans Auens et Naron de Ghanzi. (HB) (Contributiona l’étude des “Anciens Jaunes” Suid-Africains. Part I. Introduction. Donées ethnographiques et demographiques). L’Anthropologie, 59: 235-252. 15. Les Bochimans Auen et Naron de Ghanzi. (HB) (Contribution al’étude des “Anciens Jaunes” Suid-Africains. Part II. Anthropologie Physique). L’Anthropologie, 59: 429- 461. 16. Les Bochimans Auen et Naron de Ghanzi. (HB) (Contribution al’étude des “Anciens Jaunes” Suid-Africains. Part III. Caracteres metriques). L’Anthropologie, 60: 22-52. 17. Les Bochimans Auen et Naron de Ghanzi. (HB) (Contribution al’étude des “Anciens Jaunes” Suid-Africains. Part IV. Discussion Generale). L’Anthropologie, 60: 268-289. 18. Brief report on some skeletal remains from (HB, M) Marandellas. Occasasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, 20: 801-802. 19. 1957 Bushmen of the Kalahari. (HB) Man, 57: 33-40. 20. 1958 Kariba resettlement: an experiment in human ecology. (HB) South African Journal of Science, 54: 148-150. 21. Skeletal remains from Inyanga. (HB, M) In: Inyanga Prehistoric Settlement in Southern Rhodesia, by R. Summers. Cambridge University Press, pp. 159-172. 22. Studies on the occipital bone in Africa III. Sex (HB, M) difference and age changes in occipital curvature and their bearing on the morphogenesis of differences between Bushmen and Negroes. South African Journal of Medical Science, 23: 135-146. 23. 1959 Studies on the occipital bone in Africa, I. Pearson’s (HB, M) occipital index and the chord-arch index in modern African crania – means and variability. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50: 233-252. 24. Studies on the occipital bone in Africa, II. (HB, M) Resemblances and differences of occipital pattern among modern Africans. Journal of Morphology and Anthropology (Stuttgart), 50: 9-19. 5 25. 1959 Studies on the occipital bone in Africa, IV. (HB, M) Components and correlations of occipital curvature in relation to cranial growth. Human Biology, 31: 138-161. 26. Studies on the occipital bone in Africa, V. The (HB, M) occipital curvature in fossil men and the light it throws on the evolution of the Bushmen. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 17: 1-12. 27. Provisional report on Nuffield-Witwatersrand University (HB) Research Expedition to Kalahari Bushmen, August and September, 1958. South African Journal of Science, 55: 13-18. 28. 1960 Studies on the occipital bone in Africa, VI. The (HB, M) relative usefulness of Pearson’s ‘Index occipital’ and the occipital chord-arc index. Man, 60: 23-25. 29. The Kanam Jaw. (Pa) Nature, 185: 946-947. 30. 1961 New evidence and new views on the evolution of Man in (Pa) Africa. South African Journal of Science, 57: 25-38. 31. An archaeological collection from the Vume Dugame (HB, M) on the lower Volta: report on the human skeletal remains. In: Archaeology in Ghana, by O. Davies. Edinburgh: Thos. Nelson, pp. 35-38. 32. Fingerprints and palmar prints of the Kalahari Bushmen. (HB) South African Journal of Science, 57(12): 333-345. 33. 1962 Early members of the genus Homo in Africa. (Pa) In: Evolution und Hominization. Gottfried Kurth, ed., 99: 191- 204. 34. On the increasing stature of the Bushmen.
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