Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American

physical 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 ...

and

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of biological

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at the

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, and a fellow and President of the

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(WAAS) from 2008-2012. Schwartz' research involves the methods, theories, and philosophies in

evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...

, including the origins and diversification of

primates Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

. He has studied and analyzed human and primate skeletons and archaeological remains, focusing much of his research on dentofacial morphology. He has done substantial fieldwork and museum research in the collections of major museums around the globe.

Work, research, and recognitions

In the revised and updated publication of '' The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins'', he presents additional evidence for his contention that

orangutan Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genus ...

s share significantly more morphological similarities to humans than does any other great ape. He has also been a major contributor to the

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project, an attempt to create wax figure likenesses of the first U.S. President at the ages of 19, 45, and 57, based upon dentofacial morphology. On public display in a new education center and museum at

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, the models also went on a 9-city national tour to promote the museum. Since 1998 he has served as a consultant in forensic anthropology to the Allegheny County coroner's office. In 2007 he was elected President of the

for a five-year term (one year as president-elect). He was the first person so elected, all previous presidents having been directly appointed by trustees of the organization.

Education

Born March 6, 1948 in

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, Schwartz earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1969 and completed his doctorate from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1974.

Family

Schwartz is the son of Jack Schwartz, a doctor who did

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research during World War II, and

Lillian Schwartz Lillian F. Schwartz (born 1927) is an American artist considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art and one of the first artists notable for basing almost her entire oeuvre on computational media. Many of her ground-breaking projects were done in t ...

, one of the earliest visual artists to utilize computer imaging. He is married to the

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

Lynn Emanuel Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are ''Then, Suddenly—'' and ''Noose and Hook'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the A ...

and they reside in Pittsburgh.

Major works

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Film

Jeffrey H. Schwartz made an appearance in the documentary film '' The Trouble with Atheism''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwartz, Jeffrey H. 1948 births American anthropologists Living people American paleoanthropologists Scientists from Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh faculty