Background
He was born in 1926, in Tbilisi.
He was born in 1926, in Tbilisi.
In 1948 he graduated from the Tbilisi State Medical University. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1952, and in 1964 a degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Between 1948 and 1998 Abdushelishvili was a Research Fellow (1948-1952), Senior Research Fellow (1952-1959), and Head of the Department of Anthropology of the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS). From 1964 to 1998, Abdushelishvili was a Professor of the Tbilisi State University (TSU). In 1993 he was elected as Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Main fields of scientific activity of Professor Abdushelishvili were: anthropology of the population of Georgia and the Caucasus, anthropology of the population of India, kranology of the population of the Caucasus, et cetera
He was author about 200 scientific-research works and more than 10 monographs. Malkhaz Abdushelishvili died in Tbilisi in 1998 (aged 71).
The award winning popular science book on human evolution "Who Asked the First Question?.
He was a Chief Expert of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Anthropology (1964-1998), an Honorary Member of the European Anthropological Association (1973), and Honorary Member of the Indian Society of Human Genetics (1975).
