Ian Tattersall was born on 1945 and is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York.
10 Facts About Ian Tattersall
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Ian Tattersall was born in 1945 in the United Kingdom, and grew up in eastern Africa.
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Ian Tattersall trained in archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and earned his PhD from Yale University in 1971.
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Ian Tattersall has concentrated his research over the past quarter-century on the analysis of the human fossil record and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar, and is considered a leader in both areas.
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Ian Tattersall believed that existing literature was not an adequate resource for comparing human fossils because of the many terminological variations.
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Ian Tattersall maintains that the notion of human evolution as a linear trudge from primitivism to perfection is incorrect.
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Ian Tattersall is continuing his independent inquiries into the nature and emergence of modern human cognition.
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Ian Tattersall completed a book of essays on the subject, The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human.
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Ian Tattersall has over 200 scientific research publications, as well as more than a dozen trade books to his credit.
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Ian Tattersall serves on the executive board of the Institute of Human Origins and is a member of the Lemur Conservation Foundation's Scientific Advisory Council.