Tim D. White
Tim D. White | |
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Los Angeles County, California, U.S. | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University 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 |
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Tim D. White (born August 24, 1950) is an American
Career
Timothy Douglas White was born on August 24, 1950, in
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
In 1974, White worked with
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
Honors
- Fellow 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, Riverside
Selected publications
- 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. 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. S2CID 4432091.
- White, T.D. (2003). "Early hominids—Diversity or distortion". Science. 299 (5615): 1994–1996. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PMID 10213683.
See also
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
- List of hominina (hominid) fossils(with images)
References
- ^ "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.
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: 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.
- 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
- 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