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Happenings and Hearsay Experiences of a Biological Anthropologist Gabriel W. Lasker

One of the post-World War II founders of modern human biology and physical anthropology, Gabriel Lasker has a well-established place in the history of science. Lasker pioneered the concept of plasticity in human biology in an article published in Science in 1969. This notion of plasticity forced the scientific community to reexamine the genetically fixed racial types that scientists relied upon. More than a memoir, Happenings and Hearsay documents the rapid changes in the field of anthropology in the second half of the twentieth-century. Lasker takes the reader through decades of scientific research for a peek inside the lives of people that ultimately have defined what it means to be human. The late Gabriel W. Lasker was professor emeritus of anatomy at Wayne State University and founding editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology and longtime editor of the journal Human Biology, now the official journal of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics.

"Gabriel Lasker's book is an important contribution to the history of science. This book will undoubtedly become a necessary addition to academic libraries throughout the world. It should also become a welcome addition to the personal libraries of everyone who has published a paper in Human Biology."—Barry Bogin, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Published by Savoyard Press $34.95 cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2840-7 256 pages / 6 x 9 37 illustrations 1999