Richard Conniff
Biographic Data
| ID | 503407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Conniff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Conniff |
| SIGNATURE | CONNIFF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Times |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discovering gorilla
On July 16, 1847, a missionary newly arrived in New York City from West Africa packed a collection of bones in a box and shipped them off to a colleague in Massachusetts. In a letter, Thomas S. Savage (Fig. 1), a graduate of Yale College and Yale Medical School, admitted to being “quite unwell,” probably meaning “utterly wretched.” He had already endured tropical diseases in Liberia off and on for more than a decade, and he'd seen his first two w…
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Discovering gorilla
On July 16, 1847, a missionary newly arrived in New York City from West Africa packed a collection of bones in a box and shipped them off to a colleague in Massachusetts. In a letter, Thomas S. Savage (Fig. 1), a graduate of Yale College and Yale Medical School, admitted to being “quite unwell,” probably meaning “utterly wretched.” He had already endured tropical diseases in Liberia off and on for more than a decade, and he'd seen his first two w…
Anthropology (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Ethnology (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work) · Gorilla (1 work) · History (1 work) · Immunology (1 work) · Malaria (1 work) · Meaning (existential) (1 work) · Medicine (1 work)