Russell Tuttle

Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939) is a distinguished primate morphologist,[1][2] paleoanthropologist, and a four-field (linguistics, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and biological anthropology) trained Anthropologist.[3] He is currently an active Professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science and Medicine and the College at the University of Chicago.[4] Tuttle was enlisted by Mary Leakey to analyze the 3.4-million-year-old footprints she discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania. He determined that the creatures that left these prints walked bipedally in a fashion almost identical to human beings.[5] He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.

References

  1. "Scientists Seeking Link with New Methods". Gadsden Times. 20 July 1971. p. 3. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  2. "Fingers Indicate Man Didn't Descent from Tree Swingers". Oxnard Press-Courier. 18 July 1969. p. 11. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  3. Harper, Kyle; Nyhart, Lynn; Radin, Joanna; Tuttle, Russell; Thomas, Julia; Lyon, Jonathan (2016). ""Bio-History in the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Study on the Past and Present of Human Life"". Chicago Journal of History (7): 10.
  4. Choi, Charles Q. (9 October 2007). "Human Ancestors Walked Upright, Study Claims". LiveScience. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  5. "SCIENCE WATCH; The Upright Primates". New York Times. 3 August 1982. p. 4. Retrieved 21 March 2011.



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