Henry Harpending has died

Sunday, April 3rd, 2016

Henry HarpendingHenry Harpending has died, Gregory Cochran reports:

He suffered a stroke 3 weeks ago. Within a few days, he also had a MRSA infection in his lungs. The docs eventually cleared that, but his lungs never recovered. He died this afternoon of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Harpending was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah.

Cochran and Harpending wrote The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. I didn’t realize Steve Sailer had brought them together:

The great anthropologist Henry Harpending (1944-2016) has died. A genial polymath, Henry bridged the gap in anthropology between the old-fashioned cultural side (having spent almost 4 years in the field in Africa with Bushmen and Herero hunter-gatherers, at one point almost giving up academia to become a safari hunting guide) and the ascendant genetic side of anthropology.

It’s my honor to have brought Henry and Gregory Cochran into contact around 1999.

Comments

  1. Bob Sykes says:

    Harpending and Cochrane were two bright shining lights in the dark night of anthropology. Now we only have one.

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