Frederick Seymour Hulse (February 11, 1906 – May 16, 1990) was an American anthropologist.Frederick Seymour Hulse 1906-1990. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
Hulse was born in New York City in 1906 to Hiram Richard Hulse and the former Frances Burrows Seymour. He had two sisters, Mary and Charity. His parents survived the SS Morro Castle disaster in 1934, which claimed 137 lives. On August 26, 1934, in California, he married Leonie Robinson Mills. She died in a car accident in 1982, in which Hulse himself was injured.
He became interested in anthropology after reading The Racial History of Man by Roland Dixon.Biographical Memoirs, Volume 70 National Academy of Sciences, 1996, p. 175-176 Hulse was a student of Earnest Hooton.Jonathan M. Marks Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History 1995, pp. 124-125 In his publications he discussed human races in terms of evolutionary dynamics.Noel Korn, Fred W. Thompson Human evolution: readings in physical anthropology 1967, p. 331 He is also known for his work with Harry L. Shapiro on Japanese migrant studies.Clark Spencer Larsen Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton 1999, p.228 He later became a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.Report of the National Academy of Sciences
He received his BA and PhD from Harvard University.
Works
Physical types among the Japanese (1943) Man and nature: studies in the evolution of the human species (1975) The Human Species: an introduction to physical anthropology (1971)
References
Bleibtreu, H. K. and Hulse, C. (1992), Frederick S. Hulse, 1906–1990. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 87: 117–120 Thomas W. McKern Readings in Physical Anthropology Prentice-Hall, 1972, p. 254
External links
Eugene Giles, "Frederick Seymour Hulse", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1996)