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Robert Bennett Bean M.D.Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...
(1874 - 1944) was a Professor of
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and ethnologist.
Life & Career
Bean through his mother was a descendant of
William RandolphWilliam Randolph was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and government of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He moved to Virginia sometime between 1669 and 1673, and married Mary Isham a few years later...
, he studied medicine and anatomy and obtained a B.S. in medicine, followed by an M.D. in anatomy in 1904. He served as a Professor of Anatomy at numerous different universities including the
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(1905-1907), the Philippine Medical School of
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(1908), the Tulane University of Louisiana (1910-1916) and until his retirement as an associate Professor at the
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. He became the councilor of the
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in 1919 and was also a regional chairman for the
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(1926). He is most remembered for his ethnological work
The Races of Man (1932).
Books
- Racial Anatomy of the Philippine Islanders (1910)
- The Races of Man. Differentiation and Dispersal of Man (1932, 2nd Ed. 1935)
- The Peopling of Virginia (1938)