Everything about Tim White Anthropologist totally explained
Tim White (born August 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American
Paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the
University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his name of
"Lucy" as
Australopithecus afarensis with
Donald Johanson,
Yves Coppens and
Maurice Taieb.
Education
White majored in biology and anthropology at the
University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph. D in
physical anthropology from the
University of Michigan. White took a position at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1977.
He is director of the
Human Evolution Research Center
and co-director, with
Dr. Berhane Asfaw,
Dr. Yonas Beyene, and
Dr. Giday WoldeGabriel, of the
Middle Awash Research Project.
White has mentored a number of prominent paleoanthropologists, such as
Susan Antón, Berhane Asfaw,
David DeGusta,
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and
Gen Suwa.
White teaches two courses on human paleontology and human osteology, at UC Berkeley. Each Spring semester he teaches one of the two in alternation.
Collaborations
In 1974 White worked with
Richard Leakey's team at
Koobi Fora, Kenya. Richard Leakey was so impressed with White's work he recommended White to his mother,
Mary Leakey, to help her with
hominid fossils she'd found at
Laetoli, Tanzania.
White took a job at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and collaborated with
J. Desmond Clark and
F. Clark Howell. White later went on to find what was then the oldest known human ancestor: 4.4 million-year-old
Ardipithecus ramidus. White made yet another discovery that involved a 2.5 million-year-old
Australopithecus garhi.
White has announced the publication of an
Ar. ramidus skeleton (ARA-VP-6/500) that was found in 1995 that's now in press.
Awards
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