Russell Tuttle

Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939) is a distinguished primate morphologist,[1][2] and paleoanthropologist. He is a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago Anthropology Department.[3] 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.[4] 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. ↑ Choi, Charles Q. (9 October 2007). "Human Ancestors Walked Upright, Study Claims". LiveScience. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "SCIENCE WATCH; The Upright Primates". New York Times. 3 August 1982. p. 4. Retrieved 21 March 2011.

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