Russell Tuttle

Russell Tuttle
Born
Russell Howard Tuttle

(1939-08-18) August 18, 1939 (age 87)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleoanthropology
Linguistics
Archaeology
Sociocultural anthropology
Biological anthropology
WorkplacesUniversity of Chicago

Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939 - died September 18, 2026) is a distinguished primate morphologist, paleoanthropologist, and a four-field (linguistics, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and biological anthropology) trained Anthropologist. He was an active Professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. 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. He lived in Chicago, Illinois.

Tuttle was named Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003. In 2006, he received the Quantrell Award.

References

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  2. ↑ "Fingers Indicate Man Didn't Descent from Tree Swingers". Oxnard Press-Courier. 18 July 1969. p. 11.
  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 10 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "SCIENCE WATCH; The Upright Primates". The New York Times. 3 August 1982. p. C4.
  6. ↑ "Russell H. Tuttle". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ Steve Koppes (November 6, 2003). "Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows". University of Chicago Chronicle. Vol. 78, no. 4.
  8. ↑ "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". UChicago.