Alan Walker (anthropologist)

Alan Walker ( born August 23, 1938 in Leicester ) is an English anatomist and paleoanthropologist and since 2002 Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Walker discovered in 1985 known as the " Black Skull " Skull ( KNM- WT 17000 archive number ), Paranthropus aethiopicus is the assigned today and was co-author of the first description of " Turkana Boys", an exceptionally well-preserved specimen of Homo erectus. He is also an expert on the fossil primate genus Proconsul handed and was author of the first description of Proconsul heseloni.

Alan Walker studied at the University of Cambridge, among others, geology and zoology and obtained in 1967 from the University of London doctoral degrees in the subjects of anatomy and paleontology with a dissertation on the ways of moving of extinct lemurs. After that, he worked at the British Museum, and from 1965 to 1973 in Uganda and Kenya. 1974 Walker moved to Harvard University, in 1978 at the Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and finally to the Pennsylvania State University.

In 1988 he was MacArthur Fellow.

Alan Walker is married since 1976 and has a son.