Frank B. Livingstone

Frank B. Livingstone
Born December 8, 1928
Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died March 21, 2005 (2005-03-22) (aged 76)
Springfield, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University (B.A.)
Occupation Anthropologist
Relatives Guy P. Livingstone (father)
Margery Brown Livingstone (mother)

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

Early life and education

Livingstone was born in Winchester, Massachusetts to Guy P. Livingstone and Margery Brown Livingstone.[1] He graduated from Winchester High School in 1946 and earned his Bachelors Degree in Mathematics at Harvard University in 1950.[1][2] He completed a doctoral degree in 1957 and joined the University of Michigan’s anthropology faculty in 1959 where he became Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology.[1][3]

Career

Livingstone's primary area of research was genetic variation in modern human populations.[2] For his groundbreaking work on sickle cell anemia, Livingstone was awarded the Martin Luther King Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.[1][2] After his retirement in 1998, Livingstone was awarded the Charles R. Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA).[1] In 2002, a symposium was held in his honor at the annual meeting of the AAPA in Buffalo, New York.[3]

Death

Livingstone died on March 21, 2005 in Springfield, Ohio, due to complications from Parkinson's disease.[1]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Obituary for Frank B. Livingstone at the Wayback Machine (archived September 6, 2008), University of Michigan.
  2. 1 2 3 Biography of the Anthropologist Frank B. Livingstone at the Wayback Machine (archived June 3, 2010), Minnesota State University.
  3. 1 2 Vitzthum, Virginia L. (August 2003). "Frank B. Livingstone: Introduction", Human Biology.
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