--- title: "4 Earnest Hooton Quotes - Famous Anthropologist (Mans Poor Relations 1ST Edition)" description: "Earnest Albert Hooton was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up F..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-earnest-hooton-31181.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Earnest Hooton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-earnest-hooton-31181.jpg) # Earnest Hooton (1887–1954) Anthropologist **4** quotes in **61** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Earnest Hooton was an anthropologist, best known for *Mans Poor Relations 1ST Edition*. ## Quick Facts About Earnest Hooton Born November 20, 1887 Died May 3, 1954 Profession Anthropologist Notable works Mans Poor Relations 1ST Edition ## About Earnest Hooton Earnest Albert Hooton was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, a group that studied the supposed "anatomy of blacks." ## Quotes by Earnest Hooton > [Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earnest-hooton/nothing-is-more-detestable-to-the-physical-anthropologist-than-the/) Earnest Hooton [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a27/earnest-hooton-65212_anthropologists_nothing-is-more-detestable-to-the-physic_1534114.jpg) > [History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earnest-hooton/history-is-principally-the-inaccurate-narration-of-events-which-ought/) Earnest Hooton [Events](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/events/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/earnest-hooton-65212_events_history-is-principally-the-inaccurate-na_1918397.jpg) > [Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earnest-hooton/whatever-may-be-the-sociological-value-of-the-legal-fiction-that-all/) Earnest Hooton [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/earnest-hooton-65212_application_whatever-may-be-the-sociological-value-o_2356687.jpg) > [In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earnest-hooton/in-order-to-survive-an-animal-must-be-born-into-a-favoring-or-at/) Earnest Hooton [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/earnest-hooton-65212_achieve_in-order-to-survive-an-animal-must-be-bo_2869052.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/earnest-hooton/#itemlist", "name": "Earnest Hooton Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. 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