Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton believes that human behavior, though it may be influenced by environment, has a fundamental basis in organic constitution, that is, in hereditary endowment. An affable and brilliant scientist who heads Harvard's world-famed Department of Anthropology, Dr. Hooton points out that a chimpanzee and a man behave differently not because their environments are different but because they are born with different anatomical equipment.
The behavior of criminals differs radically and conspicuously from that of law-abiding people; therefore Hooton boldly set out in 1926 to get anthropological data on criminals. His...
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