Name Rick Potts | Fields Paleoanthropology | |
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Institutions Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History Books Humanity's Descent, Early hominid activities, A boy and his bike, Crossing the Tyne, What Does it Mean to be Huma | ||
Carta the origin of us rick potts african climate of the last 400 000 years
Richard B. Potts is a paleoanthropologist and has been the director of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program since 1985. He is the curator of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian.
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- Carta the origin of us rick potts african climate of the last 400 000 years
- Rick Potts Malathion LA
- Life
- Selected publications
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Rick Potts Malathion LA
Life
Potts graduated from Temple University in his home town of Philadelphia. In 1982 Potts received his doctorate in biological anthropology from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Smithsonian Institution he taught at Yale University and was its Peabody Museum of Natural History curator of Physical Anthropology. He has been involved with early human excavation sites in Africa and Asia. His focus is on how human adaptation and evolution was in response to continuous changes in their environment over time.