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CURRICULUM VITA

June 1999

Eugene Giles

 

Academic Training:

East High School, Salt Lake City, Utah Sept. 1948 - June 1951 Graduate

Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts Sept. 1951 - June 1955 A.B. Magna cum laude (highest honors) Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley

Sept. 1955 - June 1956 M.A. Paleontology

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Sept. 1958 - June

1964 A.M. (Mar. 1960) Anthropology Ph.D. (June 1966) Anthropology

Military Service:

U.S. Army (active duty) Sept. 1956 - Sept. 1958. Commissioned as second lieutenant, MSC-USAR July 1958. Honorably discharged from USAR March 1963.

Professional Appointment History:

1953 (June-Sept.) Archaeological excavator at Vantage, Washington for the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

1954 (June-Sept.) Assistant Director of archaeological excavations at Vantage, Washington for the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

1955 (June-Sept.) Research assistant, Children's Hospital, Boston.

1956 (June-Sept.) Research assistant, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley.

1960 (June-Sept.) Archaeological excavator at Les Eyzies, France for the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

1962, 1964 Teaching fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

1964-66 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1966-70 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

1967-68 Visiting Fellow, Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.

1969 (June-Sept.) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.

1970-73 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1973-99 Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1978 (Feb.-June) Visiting Fellow, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

1999- Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Administrative Appointment History:

Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign June-Sept. 1972, June 1973, June-Sept. 1974, Dec. 1974-Jan. 1975, Aug. 1982-Aug. 1983, Aug. 1993-Aug. 1994.

Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan. 1975-Aug. 1980.

Associate Dean, The Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aug. 1986-Aug. 1989.

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aug. 1995- June 1999.

Scholarships and Fellowships:

Harvard College Scholarships (non-stipendary), 1953-55

Willard Dawson Thompson Memorial Scholar, 1955-56

Harvard Foundation Prize Fellow, 1958-59

NSF Graduate Fellow, 1959-62

USPHS Predoctoral Fellow, 1962-64

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1967-68

U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program, 1991 (Natick, Mass.)

Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi

Listings: Who's Who in America, American Men and Women of Science

Professional Societies:

American Academy of Forensic Sciences (Fellow)

American Anthropological Association (Fellow)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

American Board of Forensic Anthropology (Diplomate)

American Society of Human Genetics

Current Anthropology (Associate)

Human Biology Council (Fellow)

Indian Society of Human Genetics

Society for the Study of Human Biology (London)

Society for the Study of Social Biology

 

Professional Society Offices - Elected:

American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Executive Committee, 1973-76; Vice President, 1979-80; President, 1981-83

Human Biology Council, Executive Committee, 1974-77

American Anthropological Association, Nominations Committee, 1975-77

American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Board of Directors, 1996-

Editorial Appointments:

Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1967-71

Book Review Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology,

1971-80

Advisory Board Member, Anthropological Literature: An Index to Periodical Articles and Essays (published by Harvard University's Tozzer Library), 1978-

Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Reviews, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., 1982-86

Editor for Biological Anthropology, American Anthropologist, 1988-89.

Graduate College Representative to the University of Illinois Press Board, 1987-89.

Other Professional Positions and Appointments:

Anthropology Panel Member, Behavior and Social Sciences Survey (National Academy of Sciences/Social Science Research Council), 1966-68

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Council Member for the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1969-71

NSF Graduate Fellowship Application Review Panel Member, 1973, 1976

Member, Board of Directors, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, Illinois, 1976-86

External Committee Member, Program Review, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1977

Guidelines for Death Investigation Committee Member, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 1977-78

External Committee Member, Program Review, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 1978

Member, ad hoc Committee of Inquiry, American Anthropological Association, 1979-80 (investigation into an alleged violation of AAA Principles of Professional Responsibility)

Member, National Panel of Advisors, National Forensic Center, Fair Lawn, N.J., 1980?-

External Committee Member, Program Reviews, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University and Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1981.

NSF Advisory Committee for Behavioral & Neural Sciences, Anthropology Subcommittee Member, 1982-83.

External Committee Member, Program Review, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1985

External Committee Member, Program Review Department of Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1989.

 

University Offices and Service (selected):

Senator, (campus-wide) Faculty-Student Senate, 1971-80, 1983-86, 1990-1995(elected)

Member, (university-wide) Admissions Committee, 1973-74

Member, School of Social Sciences Executive Committee, 1975-81, 1982- 83 (exofficio, 1975-79, 1982-83, elected 1979-81, 1983-85)

Chair, Department of Geography Headship Search Committee, 1975

Chair, Department of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution Headship Search Committee, 1976, 1979 and 1983.

Vice Chairperson, School of Social Sciences Executive Committee, 1979-81, 1983-85 (elected)

Member, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, 1980-82 (elected).

Member, (campus-wide) Promotions and Tenure Committee, 1980-82; chair 1982-83.

Chair, Department of Political Science Headship Search Committee, 1984.

Member, (campus-wide) Conference on Conduct Governance, 1984-86.

Member, (campus-wide) Graduate College Executive Committee, 1985-86 (elected).

Member, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee on Committees, 1986-87 (elected).

University of Illinois Coordinator (campus-wide) for the Illinois Junior Academy of Science, 1983-90; IJAS Honorary Member, 1988-

Member, Program Review Panel, Quad-Cities Graduate Study Center, Rock Island, Illinois, 1986-89. (A consortium of 9 Illinois and Iowa universities for extra-mural programs and studies).

UIUC Research Standards Officer, 1987-89.

Chair, Graduate College Associate Dean Search Committees, 1988 and 1989.

UIUC Liaison Officer, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) 1986-89 (Big Ten universities and University of Chicago).

Member, Officer of Admissions and Records Directorship Search Committee, 1988.

Member, Committee on Extended Education and External Degrees, 1986- 89.

Member, Committee on Oral English Proficiency of Teaching Assistants, 1987.

Member, Selection Committee, Off-Campus Teaching Awards, 1987-89.

Member, Fulbright Campus Committee, 1990-

Member, Senate Committee on Elections and Credentials, 1990-92; Chair, 1991-92

Member, University Senates Conference, 1990-91 (elected).

Member, University Planning Council, 1990-91.

Chair, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences General Education

Council, 1995-

Secretary, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty, 1995-

Anthropology Courses Offered:

1962 (Harvard): Physical anthropology pro-seminar

1964 (Harvard): Heredity and environment

1964-66 (UIUC): Evolution and fossil man, human genetics and race, physical anthropology seminar, primate morphology and behavior, introduction to biological anthropology

1966-70 (Harvard): Heredity and environment, man's place in nature, man: biology and behavior (elementary natural science general education courses), human variation at the population level, micro-evolution seminar, Junior and Senior year tutorial

1969 (Utah): Race and culture, human variation

1970- (UIUC): Introduction to biological anthropology, introduction to anthropology: origin of man and culture, human

genetics and race, evolution and fossil man, physical anthropology seminar, history of physical anthropology seminar, graduate and undergraduate forensic anthropology seminars, field and laboratory techniques in biological anthropology, undergraduate individual study and thesis, graduate readings, individual topics and thesis research

Theses Supervised (UIUC):

A.M.: R. Rondinelli, 1974; D. Mann, 1976; M. Bigford, 1977; K. O'Neil, 1977; M. Teaford, 1977; K. Kelly, 1980; D. Robin, 1981; C. Ferre, 1983; N. Kilzer, 1987; J. West, 1988

Ph.D.: J. McCullough, 1972; R. Rondinelli, 1977; M. Teaford, 1981; D. Mann, 1981; K. O'Neil, 1986; K. Kelly, 1988; J. West, 1995.

Participation in Professional Activities (annual examples):

1970 American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Council meeting (Chicago), delegate from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

1971 Invited speaker (subject: "The Measurement of Biological Affinities in Oceania: A Critique of Monogenic and Phylogenic Methods"), 12th Pacific Science Congress (Canberra, Australia)

1972 Participant and discussant (subject: "Melanesia"), American Anthropological Association Institute "Take It and Leave It" at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting (Toronto, Canada)

1973 Chair, "Biological Distance" session, and paper-giver (subject: "Biological Distances and Genetic Diversity: Problems of Reconciliation") at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting (Dallas)

1974 Invited speaker (subject: "Morphological Variation in Australia and Neighboring Areas") at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial Conference session "The Biological Origin of the Australians" (Canberra, Australia)

1975 Paper-giver (subject: "Crania in Forensic Anthropology: Review and Revision of Sex and Race Determination by Discriminant Function Analysis") at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting (Chicago)

1976 Organizer and chair, "Peopling of the Southwest Pacific: the Bioanthropological Perspective" symposium and paper-giver (subject: "Southwest Pacific Crania: Then and Now") at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting (St. Louis)

1977 Organizer and chair, symposium on physical anthropologists as administrators, at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting (Seattle)

1978 Invited speaker (subject: "New Guinea: Socio-cultural and Ecological Interactions") at the International Symposium on Population Structure and Human Variation (Post-plenary session of the X International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and the V Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics) (Bombay)

1979 Paper-giver (subject: "The Missing Finger: a Case Report Involving Forensic Anthropology") at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting (Atlanta)

1980 Chair, "Planning the Next Steps" session, Planning Conference on Documentation in Clinical Anthropology (Urbana, Illinois)

1981 Election to presidency, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Detroit)

1982 Keynote speaker, 10th annual meeting, Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology (Guelph, Ontario)

1983 Visiting lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee (Knoxville)

1987 Panelist, "Step by Step: Is the Covered Foot Unique?" American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting (San Diego)

1990 Invited Speaker (subject: "Physical Anthropology in the 1990's"), Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

1992 Invited presenter: Lifetime achievement award to W.W. Howells. annual meeting, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Las Vegas.

1993 Invited co-chair: "Human biological variation - symposium in honor of Edward E. Hunt." annual meetings, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Toronto.

1994 Invited discussant, "Sartor Resartus: the New Guinea Micro- Evolution Project, 1953-83 and after" Symposium, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Atlanta.

1995 Invited paper-giver (subject: "Hooton, Coon, and the tradition of racial anthropology.") Symposium, "Carleton Coon's The Origin of Races: looking backward and forward." annual meeting, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland.

1996 Invited discussant, Forensic Data Bank Symposium, annual meeting, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Nashville.

1997 Paper-giver (subject: “Are secular trends a problem in stature estimation?”) at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting (New York City)

1998 Invited presenter (subjects: "The Legacy of the Late Forensic Anthropologist Louise Robbins" and "Stature Estimation from Feet and Footprints")in the "International Seminar on Barefoot Impression Evidence" at the FBI Academy, Quantico,VA.

1999 Instructor (with L. Klepinger): “Short Course in Identifying Non-human Bones and Increasing NAGPRA awareness” at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

 

Theses and Publications

Theses:

Cranial Allometry in the Great Apes. A.B. thesis, Harvard College, 1955.

Multivariate Analysis of Pleistocene and Recent Coyotes in California. M.A. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1956.

A Genetic Study in the Markham Valley, Northeastern New Guinea. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1966.

Books:

Giles, E. and J.S. Friedlaender, eds. 1976 The Measures of Man: Methodologies in Human Biology. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, Mass., 653 pp.

Articles and Chapters:

Giles, E. 1956 Cranial allometry in the great apes. Human Biology, 28: 43-58.

Hunt, E.E., Jr. and E. Giles 1956 Allometric growth of body composition in man and other mammals. Human Biology, 28: 253-273 (Also reprinted in: Brozek, J., ed., 1956 Body Measurement and Human Nutrition. Wayne University Press, Detroit. Pp. 143-163.)

Hunt, E.E., Jr. and E. Giles 1956 An evaluation of the Photo-Metric camera. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 14: 429-436.

Giles, E. 1960 Multivariate analysis of Pleistocene and Recent coyotes (Canis latrans) from California. University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences, 36: 369-390.

Giles E. and O. Elliot 1960 Negro-white identification from the skull. Actes du VIe Congres international des Sciences anthropologiques et ethnologiques, vol. 1, pp. 179-184.

Giles, E. and H.K. Bleibtreu 1961 Cranial evidence in archaeological reconstruction: a trial of multivariate techniques for the Southwest. American Anthropologist, 63: 48-61.

Giles, E. 1962 Favism, sex-linkage, and the Indo-European kinship system. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 18: 286-290.

Giles, E. and O. Elliot 1962 Race identification from cranial measurements. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 7: 147-157.

Damon, A., H.K. Bleibtreu, O. Elliot and E. Giles 1962 Predicting somatotype from body measurements. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 20: 461-473.

Giles, E. and O. Elliot 1963 Sex determination by discriminant function analysis of crania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 21: 53-68.

Giles, E. 1964 Sex determination by discriminant function analysis of the mandible. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 22: 129- 135.

Giles, E., E. Ogan and A.G. Steinberg 1965 Gamma-globuin factors (Gm and Inv) in New Guinea: anthropological significance. Science, 150: 1158-1160.

Hungerford, D.A., E. Giles and C.G. Creech 1965 Chromosome studies of eastern New Guinea natives. Current Anthropology, 6: 107-110.

Giles, E. 1966 Statistical techniques for sex and race determination: some comments in defense. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 25: 85-86.

Giles, E. 1966 The prehistoric New Guinean. New Guinea, 1(7): 20-25.

Giles, E., E. Ogan, R.J. Walsh and M.A. Bradley 1966 Blood group genetics of natives of the Morobe District and Bougainville, Territory of New Guinea. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 1: 135-154. (Also reprinted in: Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, vol. 14, 1966, pp. 178-198.)

Giles, E., R.J. Walsh and M.A. Bradley 1966 Micro-evolution in New Guinea: the role of genetic drift. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 134: 655-665.

Giles, E., C.C. Curtain and A. Baumgarten 1967 Distribution of B- thalassemia trait and erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in the Markham River valley of New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 27:83-88.

Baumgarten, A., E. Giles and C.C. Curtain 1967 Distribution of the group specific (Gc) serum component in the populations of the Markham Valley, New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 26: 79-83.

Baumgarten, A., E. Giles and C.C. Curtain 1968 The distribution of haptoglobin and transferrin types in northeast New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 29: 29-37.

Giles, E. A.T. Hansen, J.M. McCullough, D.G. Metzger and M.H. Wolpoff 1968 Hydrogen cyanide and phenylthiocarbamide sensitivity, mid- phalangeal hair and color blindness in Yucatan, Mexico. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 28: 203-212.

Giles, E. 1969 Human biology and Melanesian history. In: Second Waigani Seminar: The History of Melanesia. University of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby and Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Pp. 391-399.

Giles, E. 1970 Culture and genetics. In: A. Fischer, ed., Current Directions in Anthropology. Bulletins of the American Anthropological Association, vol. 3, no. 3, part 2, pp. 87-98.

(Also reprinted in: Korn, N., ed., 1973 Human Evolution: Readings in Physical Anthropology. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York. Pp. 234-247, and Warner Modular Publications, Andover, Mass.)

Giles, E. 1970 Discriminant function sexing of the skeleton. In: T.D. Stewart, ed., Personal Identification in Mass Disasters. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Pp. 99-109.

Giles, E. 1970 Sexing crania by discriminant function analysis: effects of age and number of variables. Proceedings of the VIIIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, vol. 1, 59-61.

Giles, E., S. Wyber and R.J. Walsh 1970 Microevolution in New Guinea: additional evidence for genetic drift. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 5: 60-72.

McCullough, J.M. and E. Giles 1970 Human cerumen types in Mexico and New Guinea: a humidity-related polymorphism in "Mongoloid" peoples. Nature, 226: 460-462.

McHenry, H. and E. Giles 1971 Morphological variation and heritability in three Melanesian populations: a multivariate approach. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 35: 241-253.

Singh, S., E. Ogan and E. Giles 1971 Dermatoglyphics among the Nasioi of Bougainville Island. Human Biology in Oceania, 1: 97-102.

Giles, E. 1973 Population analyses in Oceania. In: M.H. Crawford and P.L. Workman, eds., Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Pp. 389-401.

Schanfield, M.S., E. Giles and H. Gershowitz 1975 Genetic studies in the Markham Valley, Northeastern Papua New Guinea: gamma globulin (Gm and Inv), group specific component (Gc) and ceruloplasmin (Cp) typing. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 42: 1-8.

Giles, E. 1976 Cranial variation in Australia and neighboring areas. In: R.L. Kirk and A.G. Thorne, eds., The Origins of the Australians. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. Pp. 161-172.

Giles, E. 1979 Anthropological genetics and prehistory in Melanesia: is there a contribution? Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 14: 72-77. (Also reprinted in: Elkin, A.P., ed., 1979 Collected Papers In Memoriam--N.W.G. Macintosh. Oceania Monographs No. 22, University of Sydney. Pp. 222-227.)

 

Snow, C.C., S. Hartman, E. Giles and F.A. Young 1979 Sex and race determination of crania by calipers and computer: a test of the Giles and Elliot discriminant functions in 52 forensic science cases. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 24: 448-460.

Giles, E. 1979 Howells, William W. In: D.L. Sills, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Biographical Supplement (vol. 18). Free Press/Macmillan, New York. Pp. 328-330.

Froehlich, J.W. and E. Giles 1981 A multivariate approach to fingerprint variation in Papua New Guinea: implications for prehistory. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 54: 73-91.

Froehlich, J.W. and E. Giles 1981 A multivariate approach to fingerprint variation in Papua New Guinea: perspectives on the evolutionary stability of dermatoglyphic markers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 54: 93-106.

McCullough, J.M., E. Giles and R.A. Thompson 1985 Evidence for assortative mating and selection in surnames: a case from Yucatan, Mexico. Human Biology, 57: 375-386.

Giles, E. and S.H. Ambrose 1986 Are we all out of Africa? Nature, 322: 21-22.

Giles, E. and L.L. Klepinger 1988 Confidence intervals for estimates based on linear regression in forensic anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 33: 1218-1222.

Giles, E. 1991 Hooton, E.A. (Earnest Albert). In: Winters, C., ed., International Dictionary of Anthropologists, Garland, New York, pp. 303-304.

Giles, E. 1991 Howells, W.W. (William White). Ibid, pp. 308-309.

Giles, E. 1991 Corrections for age in estimating older adults' stature from long bones. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 36: 898-901.

Giles, E. and D.L. Hutchinson 1991 Stature- and age-related bias in self-reported stature. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 36: 765- 780.

Giles, E. and P.H. Vallandigham 1991 Height estimation from foot and shoeprint length. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 36: 1134-1151.

Giles, E. 1993 Modifying stature estimation from the femur and tibia. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 38: 758-760.

Garn, S.M. and E. Giles 1995 Earnest Albert Hooton, 1887-1954. Biographical Memoirs, 68: 1-15. The National Academy Press,

Washington.

Giles, E. 1996 Frederick Seymour Hulse, 1906-1990. Biographical Memoirs, 70: 1-17. The National Academy Press, Washington.

Giles, E. 1997 Coon, Carleton Stevens (1904-1981) History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, 1: 294-295. Garland Publishing, New York.

Giles, E. 1997 Hooton, Earnest Albert (1887-1954) History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, 1: 499-501. Garland Publishing, New York.

Giles, E. 1997 "Young boys and girls are level now with men": are secular trends a problem in stature estimation? Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 3:158-159

Giles, E. 1998 "It Had Everything, Blood, Gore, Sex, Kinky Stuff":

Chicago's Columbo/DeLuca Murder Case. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 4:185.

Klepinger, L. and E. Giles 1998 Clarification or confusion: statistical interpretation in forensic anthropology. IN: Reichs, K.J., ed., Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, rev. ed., C.C. Thomas, Springfield, IL. Pp. 427-440.

Giles, E. 1999 Coon, Carleton Stevens. IN: Garraty, J.A. and M.C. Carnes, eds. American National Biography, vol. 5, pp. 429-431. Oxford University Press, New York.

Giles, E. 1999 Hooton, Earnest Albert. IN: Garraty, J.A. and M.C. Carnes eds. American National Biography, vol. 11, pp. 147-149. Oxford University Press, New York.

Giles, E. and L. Klepinger 1999 “The butcher who rendered his wife?” Chicago’s Luetgert case and the beginning of American forensic anthropology. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 5: 295.

Giles, E., C.C. Gordon and N. Bell Using anthropometric data to validate identification criteria. In preparation.

Giles, E., C.C. Gordon and N. Bell Race, gender and age variation in BMIs calculated from self-reported versus measured height and weight. In preparation.

Reviews:

Techniques for Measuring Body Composition. J. Brozek and A. Henschel, eds., National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1961. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 20: 407-408 (1962).

Body Composition. J. Brozek, ed. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 110: 1-1018, 1963. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 22: 201-203 (1964).

Symposium on "Methodology of Isolates" Organized by the Problem Commission of Neurogenetics of the World Federation of Neurology. D. Klein, ed. S. Karger AG, Basel, 1964. Reviewed in: Human Biology, 38: 77-78 (1966).

The Distribution of Genetic Markers in Australian Aborigines. R.L. Kirk. Occasional Papers in Aboriginal Studies No. 4, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1965. Reviewed in: Human Biology, 38: 162-163 (1966).

Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Biologists. H.L. Seal. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1964. Reviewed in: Human Biology, 38: 444- 445 (1966). (Reviewed jointly with M.H. Wolpoff.)

Advances in Blood Grouping II. A.S. Weiner. Grune & Stratton, New York, 1965. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 27: 102-103 (1967).

The Osteology of Aboriginal Man in Tasmania. N.W.G. Macintosh and B.C.W. Barker. The Craniology of the Aborigines of Coastal New South Wales. S.L. Larnach and N.W.G. Macintosh. Oceania Monographs Nos. 12 and 13, University of Sydney, 1965-66. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 28: 109 (1968).

Taiwan Aborigines: A Genetic Study of Tribal Variation. C.K. Chai. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Reviewed in: American Anthropologist, 70:644 (1968).

A Comparative Osteological Study of the Ainu and the Australian Aborigines. B. Yamaguchi. Occasional Papers No. 10, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1967. Reviewed in: American Anthropologist, 71: 785-786 (1969).

Population Genetics. W.J. Ewens. Methuen, London, 1969. Reviewed in: Human Biology, 41: 571 (1969).

The Original Australians. A.A. Abbie. American Elsevier, New York, 1969. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 34: 307-308 (1971).

Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology. P.R. and A.H. Ehrlich. W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1970. Reviewed in: American Anthropologist, 73: 840-841 (1971).

The Roots of Mankind. J. Napier. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1970. Animal Behaviour, 19: 618-619 (1971).

Human Biology in Oceania, vol. 1, no. 1. University of Sydney, 1971. Reviewed in: American Anthropologist, 74: 139-140 (1972).

Problems in Human Biology: A Study of Brazilian Populations. F.M. Salzano and N. Freire-Maia. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1970. The Ongoing Evolution of Latin American Populations. F.M. Salzano, ed. C.C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1971. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 37: 155-156 (1972).

Principles of Genetics, No. 30. Inbreeding and Heterosis. Produced by McGraw-Hill Text Films. Reviewed in: American Anthropologist, 80: 498-499 (1978).

Paleoantropologiya Zemnogo shara I Formirovaniye Chelovecheskikh Ras. Paleolit (Paleoanthropology of the Globe and the Formation of Human Races. Paleolithic). V.P. Alexeev (Alekseyev). Nauka, Moscow, 1978. Reviewed in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 68: 307-308 (1985). (Reviewed jointly with D.B. Shimkin.)

Skull Shapes and the Map. W. W. Howells. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., vol. 79. Reviewed in: International Journal of Primatology, 12: 313-314 (1991).

Somatotyping--Development and applications. J.E. Lindsay Carter and Barbara Honeyman Heath. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. Reviewed in: Human Biology, 63: 890-891(1991).

Miscellaneous*

Stirton, R.A. and E. Giles 1956 Speciation in the Pliocene Castoroid genus Eucastor. (Abstract) Resumenes de los trabajos presentados, XX Congreso Geologico Internacional, Mexico, p. 128.

Giles, E. 1966 (Solicited comment on W.W. Howells' paper "Population distances: biological, linguistic, geographical, and environmental") Current Anthropology, 7: 538.

Giles, E. 1968 The VIIIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Tokyo and Kyoto, September 1968: physical anthropology. (Report) Journal of the Polynesian Society, 77: 431- 432.

Giles, E., H.L. Movius, Jr., H.L. Shapiro, G.R. Holcomb and M. Crichton 1976 The measure of a man: William White Howells. (Appreciation) In: E. Giles and J.S. Friedlaender, eds., The Measures of Man: Methodologies in Human Biology. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, Mass. Pp. xii-xxviii.

Giles, E. 1979 Neil William George Macintosh, 1906-1977. (Obituary) American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 50: 151-152.

Giles, E. 1979 The missing finger: a case report involving forensic anthropology. 31st Annual Meeting, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Atlanta. Abstracts, p. 124.

Giles, E. 1981 (Foreword for the "Jubilee Issue") American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 56: 327.

Giles, E. 1985 Lewis also noteworthy as "visible anthropologist". (Letter) Anthropology Newsletter, September, p. 2.

Giles, E. and P.H. Vallandigham 1987 Error estimates in calculating stature from foot and shoe lengths. 11th Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (Abstracts). In: Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, 20: 172.

Giles, E., C. C. Gordon, and N. Bell. 1992 Race, gender and age variation in BMI2's calculated from self-reported versus measured height and weight. (Abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl. 14, p. 81.

Giles, E. 1992 The feminization of anthropology. (Letter)

Anthropology Newsletter, December, p. 3.

Giles, E. and T.J. Riley 1993 John C. McGregor. (Obituary) Anthropology Newsletter, January, p. 4.

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