Tim White
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About
Notable for his paleoanthropological research on an ancient hominid skeleton nicknamed 'Lucy,' White is also famous for his 1994 discovery of an ancestor of modern-day humans known as Ar. ramidus. They are 4.4 million years old.
Before Fame
After completing his undergraduate education at the University of California, Riverside, he earned a doctorate in physical anthropology from the University of Michigan.
Trivia
He taught for many years in the anthropology and integrative biology departments at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1995, he was honored with the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award.
Family Life
He spent the majority of his childhood in Lake Arrowhead, California.
Associated With
During the 1970s, he assisted the renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey on an investigation involving hominid fossils that Leakey had uncovered in Tanzania.
