H ulse, F red

Abstract

Frederick Seymour Hulse (1906–90) was a Harvard‐educated scholar who helped define many of the research agendas of modern biological anthropology. He was one of the first practitioners of a biocultural approach to human evolution. He also was an early proponent of anthropological genetics, and his research often centered on the effects of migration and included topics such as gene flow, adaptation, plasticity, natural selection, genetic drift, endogamy, and heterosis (hybrid vigor). His 1963 textbook The Human Species became the textbook in biological anthropology for over a decade. From 1967 to 1969 he served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and in 1974 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.