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Tim D. White

October 21, 2023

Tim D. White (born August 24, 1950) is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for leading the team which discovered Ardi, the type specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old likely human ancestor. Prior to that discovery, his early career was notable for his work on Lucy as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson.

Tim D. White
White at the 2010 Time 100 Gala
Born
Timothy Douglas White

(1950-08-24) August 24, 1950 (age 73)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Riverside (B.A.)
University of Michigan (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)Professor of Integrative Biology at the Project
Curator of Biological Anthropology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Advisor, National Center for Science Education
Known for

Career Edit

Timothy Douglas White was born on August 24, 1950, in Los Angeles County, California and raised in Lake Arrowhead in neighboring San Bernardino County.[1] He majored in biology and anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in physical anthropology from the University of Michigan. White took a position in the Department of Anthropology[2] at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, later moving to the university's Department of Integrative Biology.[3] White taught courses on human paleontology and human osteology.[4][5] He is a professor emeritus having retired in the spring of 2022.[6]

He is director of the Human Evolution Research Center and co-director, with Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, and Giday WoldeGabriel, of the Middle Awash Research Project.

White has taught and mentored many paleoanthropologists who have subsequently gone on to prominence in the field, including Berhane Asfaw, William Henry Gilbert, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and Gen Suwa and thousands of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

Since 2013, White has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.[7]

White has been accused of mistreating and misappropriating Indigenous people's remains. Some representatives of Indigenous Nations of California protest that he failed to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), though no court has made such a finding. Laura Miranda, chair of the California Native American Heritage Commission, opined that his breach of NAGPRA's codes was "a major moral, ethical, and potentially legal violation." He has used human skeletal remains as teaching tools in classrooms within the legal framework in place at the time of his teaching activities, but has been accused of careless and negligent treatment of human remains.[8]

Collaborations Edit

In 1974, White worked with Richard Leakey's team at Koobi Fora, Kenya. Leakey was so impressed with White's work that he recommended him to his mother, Mary Leakey, to help her with hominid fossils she had found at Laetoli, Tanzania.

White took a job at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and collaborated with J. Desmond Clark and F. Clark Howell. In 1994, White discovered 4.4 million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus, a likely human ancestor from an era which was previously empty of fossil evidence. Near the Awash River in Ethiopia, he found an almost complete fossilized female skeleton, named "Ardi". He took nearly 15 years to prepare publication of the description.[9]

In 1996, White, along with paleontologist Berhane Asfaw discovered fossils of a 2.5 million-year-old species BOU-VP-12/130 Australopithecus garhi, which is thought to predate H. habilis tool use and manufacturing by 100,000 to 600,000 years.

Honors Edit

Selected publications Edit

  • Haile-Selassie, Y.; Suwa, G.; White, T.D. (2004). "Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Early Hominid Dental Evolution". Science. 303 (5663): 1503–1505. Bibcode:2004Sci...303.1503H. doi:10.1126/science.1092978. PMID 15001775. S2CID 30387762.
  • White, T.D.; Asfaw, B.; DeGusta, D.; Gilbert, H.; Richards, G.D.; Suwa, G.; Howell, F.C. (2003). "Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia". Nature. 423 (6941): 742–747. Bibcode:2003Natur.423..742W. doi:10.1038/nature01669. PMID 12802332. S2CID 4432091.
  • White, T.D. (2003). "Early hominids—Diversity or distortion". Science. 299 (5615): 1994–1996. doi:10.1126/science.1078294. PMID 12663903. S2CID 83973951.
  • Lovejoy, C.O.; Meindl, R.S.; Ohman, J.C.; Heiple, K.G.; White, T.D. (2002). "The Maka femur and its bearing on the antiquity of human walking: Applying contemporary concepts of morphogenesis to the human fossil record". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 119 (2): 97–133. doi:10.1002/ajpa.10111. PMID 12237933.
  • Asfaw, B.; Gilbert, W.H.; Beyene, Y.; Hart, W.K.; Renne, P.R.; WoldeGabriel, G.; Vrba, E.S.; White, T.D. (2002). "Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia". Nature. 416 (6878): 317–320. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..317A. doi:10.1038/416317a. PMID 11907576. S2CID 4432263.
  • WoldeGabriel, G.; Haile-Selassie, Y.; Renne, P.R.; Hart, W.K.; Ambrose, S.H.; Asfaw, B.; Heiken, G.; White, T.D. (2001). "Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia". Nature. 412 (6843): 175–178. Bibcode:2001Natur.412..175W. doi:10.1038/35084058. PMID 11449271. S2CID 7017992.
  • White, T.D. (2000). "A view on the science: Physical anthropology at the millennium". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 113 (3): 287–292. doi:10.1002/1096-8644(200011)113:3<287::AID-AJPA1>3.0.CO;2-8. PMID 11042532.
  • Defleur, A.; White, T.D.; Valensi, P.; Slimak, L.; Crégut-Bonnoure, E (1999). "Neanderthal cannibalism at Moula-Guercy, Ard?che, France". Science. 286 (5437): 128–131. doi:10.1126/science.286.5437.128. PMID 10506562.
  • Asfaw, B.; White, T.D.; Lovejoy, C.O.; Latimer, B.; Simpson, S.; Suwa, G. (1999). "Australopithecus garhi: A new species of early hominid from Ethiopia". Science. 284 (5414): 629–635. Bibcode:1999Sci...284..629A. doi:10.1126/science.284.5414.629. PMID 10213683.

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ . achievement.org. October 26, 2010. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012.
  2. ^ [1] cites the fact that he was originally in the Dept. of Anthropology
  3. ^ Last article explicitly noting affiliation with Dept. To Anthropology First article explicitly noting affiliated with Dept. With Integrative Biology
  4. ^ UC Berkeley General Catalog - Integrative Biology . Archived from the original on June 13, 2008. Retrieved April 21, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ UC Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology: Undergraduate Courses . Archived from the original on April 30, 2008. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
  6. ^ Hudetz, Mary; Brewer, Graham Lee (March 5, 2023). "A UC Berkeley professor taught with human remains, angering Native American tribes". NBC News. ProPublica. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
  7. ^ . ncse.com. National Center for Science Education. Archived from the original on August 10, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  8. ^ Hudetz, Mary (March 5, 2023). "How a UC Berkeley professor taught with remains suspected to be Native American". ProPublica. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
  9. ^ White, Tim D.; Asfaw, Berhane; Beyene, Yonas; Haile-Selassie, Yohannes; Lovejoy, C. Owen; Suwa, Gen; WoldeGabrie, Giday (October 2009). "Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids". Science. 326 (5949): 75–86. Bibcode:2009Sci...326...75W. doi:10.1126/science.1175802. PMID 19810190. S2CID 20189444.
  10. ^ . California Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009.
  11. ^ AAAS - Fellows "WHITE, TIM D, UNIV OF CAL BERKELEY, BERKELEY, USA"

External links Edit

  • Webpage on Dr.White
  • "Conversations with History: On the Trail of our Human Ancestors" on YouTube
  • Conversation with Tim White
  • Tim White's research profile
  • UCB HERC Director - Director of Human Evolution Research Center at UC Berkeley
  • Project Leader - Middle Awash Research Project

October 21, 2023
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Tim D White born August 24 1950 is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley He is best known for leading the team which discovered Ardi the type specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus a 4 4 million year old likely human ancestor Prior to that discovery his early career was notable for his work on Lucy as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson Tim D WhiteWhite at the 2010 Time 100 GalaBornTimothy Douglas White 1950 08 24 August 24 1950 age 73 Los Angeles County California U S NationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of California Riverside B A University of Michigan Ph D Occupation s Professor of Integrative Biology at the ProjectCurator of Biological Anthropology Phoebe A Hearst Museum of AnthropologyAdvisor National Center for Science EducationKnown forAssisted in the excavation of the Laetoli footprints 1976 Co author of the analysis of Lucy 1978 Discovery of Ardipithecus 1992 Discovery of Australopithecus garhi 1994 Discovery of Ardipithecus kadabba 2004 Contents 1 Career 2 Collaborations 3 Honors 4 Selected publications 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksCareer EditTimothy Douglas White was born on August 24 1950 in Los Angeles County California and raised in Lake Arrowhead in neighboring San Bernardino County 1 He majored in biology and anthropology at the University of California Riverside He received his Ph D in physical anthropology from the University of Michigan White took a position in the Department of Anthropology 2 at the University of California Berkeley in 1977 later moving to the university s Department of Integrative Biology 3 White taught courses on human paleontology and human osteology 4 5 He is a professor emeritus having retired in the spring of 2022 6 He is director of the Human Evolution Research Center and co director with Berhane Asfaw Yonas Beyene and Giday WoldeGabriel of the Middle Awash Research Project White has taught and mentored many paleoanthropologists who have subsequently gone on to prominence in the field including Berhane Asfaw William Henry Gilbert Yohannes Haile Selassie and Gen Suwa and thousands of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California Berkeley Since 2013 White has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education 7 White has been accused of mistreating and misappropriating Indigenous people s remains Some representatives of Indigenous Nations of California protest that he failed to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act NAGPRA though no court has made such a finding Laura Miranda chair of the California Native American Heritage Commission opined that his breach of NAGPRA s codes was a major moral ethical and potentially legal violation He has used human skeletal remains as teaching tools in classrooms within the legal framework in place at the time of his teaching activities but has been accused of careless and negligent treatment of human remains 8 Collaborations EditIn 1974 White worked with Richard Leakey s team at Koobi Fora Kenya Leakey was so impressed with White s work that he recommended him to his mother Mary Leakey to help her with hominid fossils she had found at Laetoli Tanzania White took a job at the University of California Berkeley in 1977 and collaborated with J Desmond Clark and F Clark Howell In 1994 White discovered 4 4 million year old Ardipithecus ramidus a likely human ancestor from an era which was previously empty of fossil evidence Near the Awash River in Ethiopia he found an almost complete fossilized female skeleton named Ardi He took nearly 15 years to prepare publication of the description 9 In 1996 White along with paleontologist Berhane Asfaw discovered fossils of a 2 5 million year old species BOU VP 12 130 Australopithecus garhi which is thought to predate H habilis tool use and manufacturing by 100 000 to 600 000 years Honors EditFellow of the California Academy of Sciences 10 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 11 David S Ingalls Jr Award from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Member of the National Academy of Sciences Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award 1995 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2000 at the University of California RiversideSelected publications EditHaile Selassie Y Suwa G White T D 2004 Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash Ethiopia and Early Hominid Dental Evolution Science 303 5663 1503 1505 Bibcode 2004Sci 303 1503H doi 10 1126 science 1092978 PMID 15001775 S2CID 30387762 White T D Asfaw B DeGusta D Gilbert H Richards G D Suwa G Howell F C 2003 Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash Ethiopia Nature 423 6941 742 747 Bibcode 2003Natur 423 742W doi 10 1038 nature01669 PMID 12802332 S2CID 4432091 White T D 2003 Early hominids Diversity or distortion Science 299 5615 1994 1996 doi 10 1126 science 1078294 PMID 12663903 S2CID 83973951 Lovejoy C O Meindl R S Ohman J C Heiple K G White T D 2002 The Maka femur and its bearing on the antiquity of human walking Applying contemporary concepts of morphogenesis to the human fossil record American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119 2 97 133 doi 10 1002 ajpa 10111 PMID 12237933 Asfaw B Gilbert W H Beyene Y Hart W K Renne P R WoldeGabriel G Vrba E S White T D 2002 Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri Middle Awash Ethiopia Nature 416 6878 317 320 Bibcode 2002Natur 416 317A doi 10 1038 416317a PMID 11907576 S2CID 4432263 WoldeGabriel G Haile Selassie Y Renne P R Hart W K Ambrose S H Asfaw B Heiken G White T D 2001 Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley Afar rift Ethiopia Nature 412 6843 175 178 Bibcode 2001Natur 412 175W doi 10 1038 35084058 PMID 11449271 S2CID 7017992 White T D 2000 A view on the science Physical anthropology at the millennium American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113 3 287 292 doi 10 1002 1096 8644 200011 113 3 lt 287 AID AJPA1 gt 3 0 CO 2 8 PMID 11042532 Defleur A White T D Valensi P Slimak L Cregut Bonnoure E 1999 Neanderthal cannibalism at Moula Guercy Ard che France Science 286 5437 128 131 doi 10 1126 science 286 5437 128 PMID 10506562 Asfaw B White T D Lovejoy C O Latimer B Simpson S Suwa G 1999 Australopithecus garhi A new species of early hominid from Ethiopia Science 284 5414 629 635 Bibcode 1999Sci 284 629A doi 10 1126 science 284 5414 629 PMID 10213683 See also EditList of fossil sites with link directory List of hominina hominid fossils with images References Edit Tim D White Biography Academy of Achievement achievement org October 26 2010 Archived from the original on March 15 2012 1 cites the fact that he was originally in the Dept of Anthropology Last article explicitly noting affiliation with Dept To Anthropology First article explicitly noting affiliated with Dept With Integrative Biology UC Berkeley General Catalog Integrative Biology Archived copy Archived from the original on June 13 2008 Retrieved April 21 2008 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link UC Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology Undergraduate Courses Undergraduate Courses Archived from the original on April 30 2008 Retrieved April 21 2008 Hudetz Mary Brewer Graham Lee March 5 2023 A UC Berkeley professor taught with human remains angering Native American tribes NBC News ProPublica Retrieved March 5 2023 Advisory Council ncse com National Center for Science Education Archived from the original on August 10 2013 Retrieved October 30 2018 Hudetz Mary March 5 2023 How a UC Berkeley professor taught with remains suspected to be Native American ProPublica Retrieved March 5 2023 White Tim D Asfaw Berhane Beyene Yonas Haile Selassie Yohannes Lovejoy C Owen Suwa Gen WoldeGabrie Giday October 2009 Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids Science 326 5949 75 86 Bibcode 2009Sci 326 75W doi 10 1126 science 1175802 PMID 19810190 S2CID 20189444 Science Today California Academy of Sciences Archived from the original on October 22 2009 AAAS Fellows WHITE TIM D UNIV OF CAL BERKELEY BERKELEY USA External links EditWebpage on Dr White Conversations with History On the Trail of our Human Ancestors on YouTube Conversation with Tim White Tim White s research profile UCB HERC Director Director of Human Evolution Research Center at UC Berkeley Project Leader Middle Awash Research Project Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tim D White amp oldid 1146895406, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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