摘要：Anyone in physical anthropology in the 1960s¨C1980s likely had some contact with John Buettner-Janusch or BJ as everyone called him. Those young colleagues that never witnessed the BJ presence at AAPA meetings or in the field missed a real character in the profession. The American Association of Physical Anthropologists was small then, a few hundred members, but even today with big attendance, if BJ were around, he would be obvious and draw a crowd. BJ had a profound, lasting influence on the field with his introductory textbooks (Origins of Man [1966] and Physical Anthropology: A Perspective [1973]), the found-ing and development of the Duke Primate Center, train-ing major figures in the field (Bob Sussman, Peter Nute, for example), serving as an NSF panelist, serving for four years as editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, and establishing (with others, including his wife, Vina) a bio-chemical approach to primate and human evolution, past and present. Kobel's book focuses on some of this, but it is really about BJ's fall and his personality
