Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939) is a distinguished primate morphologist,[ 1] [ 2] paleoanthropologist , and a four-field (linguistics , archaeology , sociocultural anthropology and biological anthropology ) trained Anthropologist.[ 3] He is currently an active Professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago .[ 4] 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.[ 5] He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Tuttle was named Guggenheim Fellow in 1985[ 6] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.[ 7]
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^ "Scientists Seeking Link with New Methods" . Gadsden Times . 20 July 1971. p. 3.
^ "Fingers Indicate Man Didn't Descent from Tree Swingers" . Oxnard Press-Courier . 18 July 1969. p. 11.
^ 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.
^ Choi, Charles Q. (9 October 2007). "Human Ancestors Walked Upright, Study Claims" . LiveScience . Retrieved 10 January 2020 .
^ "SCIENCE WATCH; The Upright Primates". The New York Times . 3 August 1982. p. C4.
^ "Russell H. Tuttle" . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
^ Steve Koppes (November 6, 2003). "Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows" . University of Chicago Chronicle . Vol. 78, no. 4.
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