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For the Scottish constitutional lawyer and scholar of Sanskrit, see Arthur Berriedale Keith. For the American geologist, see Arthur Keith (geologist).
Sir
Arthur Keith
FRS
Arthur Keith
Born
(1866-02-05)5 February 1866
Aberdeenshire
Died
7 January 1955(1955-01-07) (aged 88)
Downe, Kent
Nationality
British
Alma mater
University of Aberdeen
Known for
Group selection
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Anatomy
Anthropology
Sir Arthur Keith FRS[1] FRAI (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a British anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.[2][3] He was a strong proponent of the Piltdown Man, but conceded it to be a forgery shortly before his death.[4]
^ abClark, W. E. L. G. (1955). "Arthur Keith 1866-1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 144–161. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0011. S2CID 186211589.
^Read, R. C. (2007). "Arthur Keith, the anatomist who envisioned herniosis". Hernia. 11 (6): 469–471. doi:10.1007/s10029-007-0273-9. PMID 17687509. S2CID 22678667.
^Keith, A. (1912). "Anatomy in Scotland during the lifetime of Sir John Struthers (1823–1899)". Edinb. Med. J. 8: 7–33.
^Edmeades, Baz (2021). Megafauna First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction. Cork: BookBaby. p. 333. ISBN 9781544526522.
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