Alan Walker (anthropologist)
- Alan Walker (anthropologist)
Alan Walker (born August 23, 1938), is Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1962, and his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1967. He was also awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 1988. [cite web
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Dr. Walker is a paleoanthropologist who works on primate and human evolution [http://www.anthro.psu.edu/faculty_staff/walker.shtml]
Bibliography
* "The Wisdom of Bones", Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1996
* "The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of" Proconsul, The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
References
ee also
* List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"
* List of hominina (hominid) fossils "(with images)"
External links
* [http://www.anthro.psu.edu/faculty_staff/walker.shtml Alan Walker's faculty page at Penn State]
* [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/science-forecasts/dn10564-alan-walker-forecasts-the-future.html]
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/uvwxyz/walker_alan.html Alan Walker page at www.mnsu.edu]
* [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/001102/honorary-degrees.shtml Ten scholars to receive honorary degrees]
* [http://www.anthro.psu.edu/cv/walker.pdf CURRICULUM VITAE of ALAN WALKER]
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