Rick Potts

Rick Potts
Potts displaying Oldowan stone choppers, roughly 2 million years old. These are the oldest hominin tools in the Smithsonian.
Scientific career
FieldsPaleoanthropology
InstitutionsSmithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History

Richard B. Potts is a paleoanthropologist and has been the director of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program since 1985. He is the curator of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian.[1]

  1. ^ "The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program – Rick Potts". 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2014-10-21.