Harry Lionel Shapiro

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Harry Lionel Shapiro (born March 19, 1902 in Boston , Massachusetts , † January 7, 1990 ) was an American anthropologist . Among other things, he wrote a work on the Peking man , a homo-erectus bone find in China around 1920. In 1949 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , and in 1964 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His parents were Polish Jews who emigrated to the United States.

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  1. Eric Pace: Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, Anthropologist, Dies at 87 . ( nytimes.com [accessed June 13, 2018]).