David Pilbeam

Harvard University, Paleoanthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Herausgegeben:Bert, Adam Cornelius

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David Pilbeam is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Pilbeam has produced numerous publications related to hominoid evolution since the mid-1960s, with some of his papers reprinted in later books. In the 1970s, he was a co-discoverer, in the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan, of a nearly complete skull subsequently described as belonging to Sivapithecus indicus, an extinct Late Miocene great ape, on which he published several paper, In 2005, in honour of his 65th birthday, Pilbeams' students, colleagues, collaborators and friends assembled a collection to honour his work. Pilbeam himself later contributed to a paper honouring Ofer Bar-Yosef. In the summer of 2007, Pilbeam was appointed interim dean of Harvard College. He oversaw the continuing process of redesigning the undergraduate curriculum, as well as a large increase in financial aid to students and the planning of a housing renewal project.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Chromo Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138249023
• ISBN-10: 613824902X
• Artikelnr.: 34695763