Editing Jacob Bronowski (section)

==Postwar biological analysis==
Following his experiences of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, he discontinued his work for British military research and turned to [[biology]], as did his friend [[Leo Szilard]], and many other physicists of that time, to better understand the nature of violence. Subsequently, Bronowski became Director of Research for the [[National Coal Board]] in the UK, and an associate director of the [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies|Salk Institute]] from 1964.

In 1950, Bronowski was given the [[Taung Child]]'s fossilised skull and asked to try, using his statistical skills, to combine a measure of the size of the skull's teeth with their shape  to discriminate them from the teeth of apes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swetz |first1=Frank J. |date=March 1985 |title=Mathematics: A Vehicle for Better Global Understanding  |jstor=27964452 |journal=The Mathematics Teacher |volume=78 |issue=3 |pages=207–215 |doi=10.5951/MT.78.3.0207 }}</ref> Work on this turned his interests towards the biology of humanity's intellectual products.