The New York Times reports today that “William Howells has passed away”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/national/30howells.html. Howells was truly old school — he was the guy who replaced “Earnest Hooton”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_Hooton at Harvard. I don’t know enough about physical anthropology or Howells to assess his impact in the field. Uxorial fellow that I am, the most impressive thing about Howells that comes through in his obit is that his marriage lasted 73 years.