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British anthropologist
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Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, East Midlands
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86 years
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Biography
Alan Walker (born August 23, 1938 in Leicester, England), 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.
Dr. Walker is a paleoanthropologist who works on primate and human evolution.
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 near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.
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Notable English Scientists
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Notable British Scientists
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Notable English Archaeologists
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Notable British Archaeologists
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Notable English Anthropologists
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Notable British Anthropologists
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Notable English Biologists
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Notable British Biologists
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Notable English Educators
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Notable British Educators
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Notable English Paleontologists
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Notable British Paleontologists
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Notable English Paleoanthropologists
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Notable British Paleoanthropologists
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Notable English Historians
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Notable British Historians
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