Edward Hunt (Sr.) (1885–1953) was an economist and war correspondent who had worked in the administrations of Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
They married in 1952, moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, and had four children: Margaret, William, Louise Rounds, and Catherine.
[1] In 1956, he worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Melbourne's Department of Anatomy under the Fulbright Scholar Program.
[5] His prime area of research were the "evolutionary aspects of dental and skeletal morphogenesis, and human growth and development".
His research subjects included body composition, demography, dermatoglyphics, history of anthropology, primate behavior, and somatology.
[1] According to Paul T. Baker, he played a key role in changing "physical anthropology from a descriptive science into one with a Darwinian and problem-solving orientation".
[2] According to the anthropologists Marcha Flint and Leslie Sue Lieberman, he promoted the bio-cultural perspective in the field of human biology and he was one of the originators of applied medical anthropology.
[6] Binghamton University's Gary D. James noted that the research work of some of his contemporary scholars including Carleton S. Coon, Stanley M. Garn and Paul T. Baker was "strongly influenced" by Hunt.
[1] According to Flint and Lieberman, he pioneered the application of statistics to the fields of physical anthropology and human biology.