Lifeline: Trefor Jenkins

Abstract

[Trefor Jenkins] is Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, and now serves as Interim Director of its Institute for Human Evolution. 4 years after qualifying in the UK, in 1956, he left for Zimbabwe and South Africa where he has worked as a mine medical officer, has taught and researched human genetics, and founded genetic counselling clinics and diagnostic and research laboratories.