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Also Known As Earnest Albert Hooton
Born November 20, 1887 • Wisconsin
Died May 3, 1954 (aged 66) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study taxonomy • Guanche • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • behaviour • crime
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