| 词条 | Rick Potts |
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| name = Rick Potts | image = Rick_Potts_of_the_Smithsonian_in_his_office.jpg | image_size = 175px | caption = Potts displaying Oldowan stone choppers, roughly 2 million years old. These are the oldest hominin tools in the Smithsonian. | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = Paleoanthropology | work_institution = Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }} 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. He is the curator of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian.[1] LifePotts graduated from Temple University in his home town of Philadelphia.[2] In 1982 Potts received his doctorate in biological anthropology from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Smithsonian Institution he taught at Yale University and was its Peabody Museum of Natural History curator of Physical Anthropology.[1] He has been involved with early human excavation sites in Africa and Asia. His focus is on how human adaptation and evolution was in response to continuous changes in their environment over time.[1] Selected publications
| publisher = National Geographic | isbn = 9781426206061 | last = Potts | first = Rick |author2=Chris Sloan | title = What Does It Mean to Be Human? | location = Washington, D.C | date = 2010-03-09 }}
| publisher = William Morrow | isbn = 0380715236 | last = Potts | first = Rick | title = Humanity's Descent: The Consequences of Ecological Instability | date = 1997-05-28 }} See also
References1. ^1 2 {{Cite web| title = The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program – Rick Potts| accessdate = 2014-10-21| date = 2010-01-29| url = http://humanorigins.si.edu/research/hop-team/rick-potts}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Potts, Rick}}{{US-scientist-stub}}2. ^{{Cite web|url = http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/anthnote/Summer99/anthnote.html|title = Human Origins: One Man's Search for the Causes in Time|date = Spring–Summer 1999|accessdate = October 17, 2014|website = Anthro Notes Museum of Natural History Publication for Educators|publisher = Museum of Natural History|last = Selig|first = Ruth Osterweis}} 12 : American paleoanthropologists|American curators|Smithsonian Institution people|Harvard University alumni|Human evolution theorists|Living people|Temple University alumni|Scientists from Philadelphia|Yale University faculty|20th-century anthropologists|21st-century anthropologists|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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