Born in Chicago, George Gaylord Simpson, probably the most influential paleontological thinker of the mid-20th century, was trained at Yale in vertebrate paleontology. In 1927 he took up a curatorial position in fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, where he spent most of his career before proceeding to Harvard and then to
The next time you have the good fortune to see an endangered species, you might be the beneficiary of George Schaller, a naturalist who has become well-known for his efforts to describe and preserve animals who are in danger of extinction. George Schaller was born in Berlin, Germany, but found himself in Missouri as a
George Gerbner (1920 –2006) was one of the most perspicacious students and critics of the social and political effects of television. Of half-Jewish descent, he grew up in Budapest as a recognized poet and lover of folklore. Forced to flee fascist Hungary to the US in 1939, he studied journalism at the University of California
George Orwell’s contributions to the field of anthropology are related to his opinions on individual freedom in relation to the state. Through both his writings and his many exploits, Orwell stressed the importance of each person’s individuality over the threat of authority. He reached adulthood at a time when fascism and communism were both making
George Peter Murdock was an American anthropologist, with strong roots in Yale University sociology, whose major contribution was the testing of propositions with ethnographic data drawn from large samples of societies representing all levels of sociopolitical complexity. He achieved this through a series of cross-cultural studies that focused on various aspects of social organization, including