Joseph Sidney Weiner FRCP FRAI (29 June 1915 – 13 June 1982) was a South African-born British human biologist and environmental physiologist.^[1][2][3] He was influential^[4] and among other things helped expose the Piltdown hoax.^[5] He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1963–64, and Huxley Memorial Medallist in 1978.^[5]

Weiner maintained an abiding interest in heat adaptation in humans from his doctorate at London University in 1946,^[2] and was still publishing on the subject the year before he died.^[5]

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