Alan Walker (anthropologist)

Alan Walker
Born(1938-08-23)23 August 1938
Leicester, England
Died20 November 2017(2017-11-20) (aged 79)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge,
University of London
Known forFossil discoveries in Kenya
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Thesis Locomotor adaptations in living and extinct Madagascan lemurs

Alan Cyril Walker (23 August 1938 – 20 November 2017)[1][2][3] was the Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University and a research scientist for the National Museum of Kenya.[4]

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  3. ^ "Penn State mourns passing of Alan Walker". Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  4. ^ Teltsch, Kathleen (19 July 1988). "MacArthur Foundation Names 31 Recipients of 1988 Awards". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.