Jeffrey H. Schwartz

Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz ( born March 6, 1948 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American paleoanthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was known outside specialist circles internationally through its evolutionary studies and theories to the early development of primates and phylogeny of man.

Research

Jeffrey H. Schwartz studied natural sciences at Columbia College of Columbia University in New York City, where in 1969 he earned a bachelor's degree. At the same University he was then the master exam, and in 1974 he acquired there also doctoral degrees in field anthropology.

Due to its morphological studies of African and Asian fossils of the genus Homo, he came to the conclusion that the finds to Homo erectus found by the majority of researchers - should be called different types - separated by continents. Together with Ian Tattersall, he tried also to develop criteria by which anatomically modern humans could be (Homo sapiens) accrued on previous fossil species.

There is disagreement among experts Schwartz's interpretation of the anatomical features of the orang- utans, which according to his view more features in common with the anatomically modern humans share as chimpanzees and humans.

Writings

• Ian Tattersall, Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, Michael S. Yuan: The Human Fossil Record. 4 volumes, Wiley -Liss, 2002-2005.
• With Ian Tattersall: Extinct Humans. Basic Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0813339184
• Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species. Wiley, 1999, ISBN 978-0471329855
• With Ian Tattersall: Hominids and hybrids: The place of Neanderthals in human evolution. In: PNAS. Volume 96, No. 13, 1999, pp. 7117-7119, doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.13.7117, Full text ( PDF)
• The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins, Revised and Updated. Basic Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0813340647