Frank B. Livingstone (December 8, 1928March 21, 2005) was an American

biological anthropologist Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an e ...

Early life and education

Livingstone was born in

Winchester, Massachusetts Winchester is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located 8.2 miles (13.2 km) north of downtown Boston as part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. It is also one of the wealthiest municipalities in Massachusetts. The population ...

, to Guy P. Livingstone and Margery Brown Livingstone., University of Michigan. He graduated from Winchester High School in 1946 and earned his bachelor's degree in Mathematics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

in 1950., Minnesota State University. He completed a doctoral degree in 1957 and joined the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

’s anthropology faculty in 1959 where he became Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology.Vitzthum, Virginia L. (August 2003).
Frank B. Livingstone: Introduction
, ''Human Biology''.

Career

Livingstone's primary area of research was genetic variation in modern human populations. For his groundbreaking work on

sickle cell anemia Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a person's parents. The most common type is known as sickle cell anaemia. It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red bl ...

, Livingstone was awarded the Martin Luther King Award from the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civ ...

. After his retirement in 1998, Livingstone was awarded the Charles R. Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement from the

American Association of Physical Anthropologists The American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) is an international professional society of biological anthropologists, based in the United States. The organization publishes the ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', a pe ...

(AAPA). In 2002, a symposium was held in his honor at the annual meeting of the AAPA in Buffalo, New York.

Death

Livingstone died on March 21, 2005, in Springfield, Ohio, due to complications from

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

Bibliography

*''Abnormal Hemoglobin in Human Populations'' (Aldine Press, 1967) *''Data on the Abnormal Hemoglobin's and Glucose-Six-Phosphate Deficiency in Human Populations'' (1973) *''Frequencies of Hemoglobin Variants: Thalassemia, The Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, G6PD Variants, and Ovalocytosis in Human Populations'' (Oxford University Press, 1985)

References

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