Phyllis Carol Dolhinow was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1933 to William J. and Fern G. Joscelyn. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Beloit College in 1955, a Masters Degree from the University of Chicago in 1960, and received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1963. On June 3, 1968 she married Jack L. Dolhinow and they had one child named Rebecca.
Phyllis has done many things in the field of anthropology. Her professional experience consists of lecturing on anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1961-62; Assistant Professor at Columbia University from 63-64; and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Dolhinow also held some concurrent positions during these years as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Standford University, from 1962-63; Assistant Research Anthropologist at the National Center for Primate Biology from 64-66; the Wenner-Gren Foundation for anthropology grant primatology in Africa from 66-68,Research Grantee of NSF for the Primate Behavioral Unit at University of California, Berkeley from 67-71, NIMH grant from 73-80, Miller Professor from 75-76; and Smithsonian Institution grant primatology in India from 85-87. She is also the author of Primates: Studies in Adaptation and Variability, 1968; Perspectives on Human Evolution, Vol. II, 1972; Background for Man, 1971; and Prime Patterns, 1972. Finally, she was Associate Editor for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1963-68.
Contemporary Authors, V 21-24 1st Edition
Dolhinow, Phyllis. Primate Patterns. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
Dolhinow, Phyllis. Primates; Studies in Adaptation and Variability. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Dolhinow, Phyllis. Perspectives on Human Evolution. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968-72.
Dolhinow, Phyllis. Background for Man; Readings in Physical Anthropology. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
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