Rick Potts
Rick Potts | |
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| File:Rick Potts of the Smithsonian in his office.jpg Potts displaying Oldowan stone choppers, roughly 2 million years old. These are the oldest hominin tools in the Smithsonian. | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleoanthropology |
| Institutions | Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History |
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.[1]
Life
[edit | edit source]Potts graduated from Temple University in his hometown of Philadelphia.[2] 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.[1] He has been involved with early human excavation sites in Africa and Asia. His focus is on how human adaptation and evolution were in response to continuous changes in their environment over time.[1]
Selected publications
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See also
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- American paleoanthropologists
- American curators
- Smithsonian Institution people
- Harvard University alumni
- Human evolution theorists
- Living people
- Temple University alumni
- Scientists from Philadelphia
- Yale University faculty
- 20th-century American anthropologists
- 21st-century American anthropologists
- American paleontologist stubs