Human evolution theorists

Richard D. Alexander (born 1930) is an Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Curator of Insects at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Richard Jay Smith, an American anthropologist, (born 1948) is Ralph E.

Richard Machalek (born April 12, 1946) is a social theorist, sociobiologist, and professor of sociology.

John Hawks is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Richard B. Potts is a paleoanthropologist and has been the director of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program since 1985.

Erik Trinkaus, PhD, (December 24, 1948) is a prominent paleoanthropologist and expert on Neandertal biology and human evolution.

Ian Tattersall (born 1945) is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York.

Geoffrey F. Miller (born 1965 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American evolutionary psychologist, serving as an associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico and known for his expertise in sexual selection in human evolution, and for his views on the evolution through sexual selection of the human brain as sexual ornamentation.

Alison Jolly (May 9, 1937 – February 6, 2014) was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology.

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William H. Calvin, Ph.

Sir Paul Anthony Mellars, FBA (born 29 October 1939) is a British academic, archaeologist and pre-historian.

Rebecca L. Cann (born 1951) is a geneticist who made a scientific breakthrough on mitochondrial DNA variation and evolution in humans, popularly called Mitochondrial Eve.

Jean Piveteau (23 September 1899 – 7 March 1991) was a distinguished French vertebrate paleontologist.

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is a 1996 book by Robin Dunbar, arguing that language evolved from social grooming.

Steven Mithen is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading.

Elaine Morgan OBE FRSL (7 November 1920 – 12 July 2013) was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology, especially the aquatic ape hypothesis: The Descent of Woman, The Aquatic Ape, The Scars of Evolution, The Descent of the Child, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, and The Naked Darwinist (2008), which discusses the reception of aquatic scenarios in academic literature.

Ellen Dissanayake (born Ellen Franzen), an independent scholar focusing on "the anthropological exploration of art and culture".

Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar (born 28 June 1947) is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist and a specialist in primate behaviour.

Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark (June 1895 – 28 June 1971) was a British anatomist surgeon, primatologist and palaeoanthropologist, today best remembered for his contribution to the study of human evolution.

Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

Robert Andrew Foley, FBA (born 18 March 1953) is a British anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in human evolution.

Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness.

Gerard M. Verschuuren (nicknames Gerry and Geert) is a scientist, writer, speaker, and consultant, working at the interface of science, philosophy, and religion.

The origins of society — the evolutionary emergence of distinctively human social organization — is an important topic within evolutionary biology, anthropology, prehistory and palaeolithic archaeology.

Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (19 November 1937 – 5 October 1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa, and was one of twin sons born to botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton.

Jurriaan ten Doesschate (Utrecht, October 31, 1912 – Zeist, November 3, 1977) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist, who specialized in physiological optics.

Prof. Dr. Adriaan Kortlandt (25 January 1918, Rotterdam - 18 October 2009, Amsterdam) was a Dutch ethologist.

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley DL FRSL FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist, businessman and author of popular science books.

Sherwood Larned Washburn (November 26, 1911 – April 16, 2000), nicknamed "Sherry", was an American physical anthropologist and pioneer in the field of primatology, opening it to the study of primates in their natural habitats.

Sir Arthur Keith FRS (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist.

Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer.

John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a British-born Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other apparent racial variations.

Allan Charles Wilson (18 October 1934 – 21 July 1991) was a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies, and a revolutionary contributor to the study of human evolution.

Chris Knight (born 1942) is a British anthropologist and political activist.

Dr. Marta Mirazón Lahr (born 1965) is a palaeoanthropologist and Director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Martin Daly is a Professor of Psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and author of many influential papers on evolutionary psychology.

Milford Howell Wolpoff is a paleoanthropologist working as a professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, Museum of Anthropology, at the University of Michigan.

Charles Loring Brace IV (born 1930) is an American anthropologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan's Department of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus at the University's Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.

Craig Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

Sarah Brosnan is a researcher into the development of the cognitive processes that underlie cooperation and reciprocity.