Bernard Grant Campbell was born on April 29, 1930, in Weybridge, England. He was born into a family that consisted of an engineer father, Donald Fraser, and a homemaker mother, Caroline (Henry) Campbell. On May 10, 1962, Campbell married Margaret Elton-Mills and moved to Sedgeford Hall, Hunstanton, in Norfolk, England. There they had two children, James Sebastian and Sophia Georgina. Bernard attended University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. He received his Master of Arts in 1952, and then received his Ph.D. Shortly after graduating with his Ph.D., he became a farmer. He stayed in farming until returning to Cambridge University as a visiting lecturer of Anthropology from 1967 to 1969.
Campbell went into teaching in 1971. He became an Anthropology Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the time, he was a visiting lecturer and during his years as a professor, Bernard Campbell wrote many books that discussed his work in progress about human evolution. His first book was The Nomenclature of the Hominidae, was published and copyrighted in 1965. Campbell describes the origins of primates and humans, the evolution and progress of humans, and the rise in society and speech communication between cultures, in his book. Human Evolution was one of Campbell’s greatest published works.
He also published a book about culture and human evolution in different ecosystems in a work entitled Human Ecology. In this book, Bernard Campbell describes the way different cultures grew and progressed through different biomes. Bernard G. Campbell was a great anthropologist that made great contributions to the field. He wrote a book that described, in a simple but precise way, the evolution of man. He was able to bring the idea of human evolution to the world in easy-to-understand format, so that people outside of the anthropology saw how humans developed. He made contributions to anthropology studies by providing a guide to different countries and different cultures around the world, about how different human culture developed in different ecosystems. Publications by Campbell include:
Human Evolution, 1967
Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man, 1972
Humankind Emerging coauthored with James D. Loy and Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, 1976
References:
Campbell, Bernard G., Human Ecology, New York. Aldine Publishing Co., 1983.
Campbell, Bernard G., Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Adaptations., New York. Aldine Publishing Co., 1966.
Gale Research Co., Contemporary Authors., Detroit. Gale Research Co., 1969.
Written by: Kris Carlson
Edited by: Lillian Dolentz, 2009