Alan Walker (anthropologist)

Alan Walker (born August 23, 1938 in Leicester, England),^[1] is Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1962, and his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1967. He was also awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 1988.^[2]

Dr. Walker is a paleoanthropologist who works on primate and human evolution.^[3]

Walker was a member of the team led by Richard Leakey responsible for the 1984 discovery of the skeleton of the so-called Turkana Boy, and in 1985 Walker himself discovered the Black Skull^[4] near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Bibliography

The Wisdom of Bones, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1996
Leakey, Meave; Walker, Alan (June 1997), "Early Hominid Fossils from Africa", Scientific American, 276 (6): 74–79, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0697-74
The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul, The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass., 2005

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1999

Fellows	Frances Ashcroft Anthony Barrett Rosa Beddington Derek Briggs Simon Campbell Ian Carmichael Lorna Casselton John Brian Clegg David Cockayne David Delpy Derek Denton Raymond Dixon Athene Donald Philip England Douglas Fearon Gary Gibbons Timothy Gowers Ron Grigg Alan Hall Peter L. Knight John Paul Maier Barry Marshall Iain Mattaj Ernest McCulloch John G. McWhirter John Mollon John Ockendon John Pethica Dolph Schluter John G. Shepherd Joseph Silk James Stirling Alfred G. Sykes Janet Thornton John F. Toland Tony Trewavas Alan Walker Graham Barry Warren Denis Weaire Peter M. Williams Robert Williamson Magdi Yacoub

Foreign	Robert Huber Marc Kirschner G. Ledyard Stebbins Gilbert Stork Edward Witten Richard Zare

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