Peter Andrews’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist
Is Archaeologist 
Historian 
Anthropologist 
Paleoanthropologist 
Professor 
Educator 
From United Kingdom 
Type Academia 
Social science 
Gender male
Birth 31 January 1940, São Paulo, Brazil
Age: 80 years
Star sign Aquarius

Peter John Andrews (* 31. Januar 1940 in São Paulo, Brasilien) ist ein britischer Paläoanthropologe. Er ist seit 1974 am Natural History Museum in London tätig und seit 1996 Honorarprofessor des University College London. Seit 2000 ist er zudem Kurator am Blandford Museum in Dorset.

Leben

Andrews studierte zunächst bis zum Bachelor-Abschluss (1961) Forstwissenschaft an der University of Aberdeen und erwarb 1963 an der University of Toronto im gleichen Studienfach den Master-Grad. Von 1964 bis 1967 war er für das Forstministerium in Kenia tätig. Zurückgekehrt nach England begann Andrews ein Zweitstudium im Fach Anthropologie an der University of Cambridge, wo er 1972 einen zweiten Magister-Grad und 1973 den Doktor-Grad mit einer Studie über ostafrikanische Primaten des Miozäns erwarb; während dieser Zeit war er 1969/70 als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für Louis Leakey in Kenia tätig. Nach einem neuerlichen Aufenthalt (1973/74) am Nairobi National Museum begann er 1974 seine Tätigkeit am Natural History Museum in London.

Peter Andrews ist unter anderem Mitglied der Linnean Society of London, der Cambridge Philosophical Society und der Primate Society of Great Britain. Für English Heritage ist er als Gutachter tätig. Zu seinen Schülern zählten unter anderem Terry Harrison und Louise Leakey.

Forschung

Aufgrund seines zweifachen Studiums ist Peter Andrews in mehreren, aneinander angrenzenden Fachgebieten tätig. Nach diversen Forschungsaufenthalten in Afrika erforschte er unter anderem die Stammesgeschichte der Orang-Utans sowie fossile Primaten bei Paşalar in der Türkei. Zu seinen zahlreichen Publikationen gehört unter anderem die Erstbeschreibung von Kenyapithecus kizili aus Paşalar und von Proconsul meswae aus Kenia. Ferner gilt er als Experte auf dem Gebiet der Fossilisationslehre (Taphonomie) und hat über Themen aus dem Gebiet der Paläoökologie publiziert.

Gemeinsam mit Chris Stringer publizierte er 1988 in der Fachzeitschrift Nature eine einflussreiche Studie, in der erstmals die Fossilien aus dem Formenkreis der Gattung Homo mit den 1987 publizierten genetischen Daten zur sogenannten mitochondrialen Eva in Beziehung gesetzt wurden. Auf diese Weise wurde die Out-of-Africa-Theorie zur Entstehung des modernen Menschen (Homo sapiens) durch eine von den anatomischen Befunden unabhängige Methode abgesichert.

Ehrungen

  • 1997: Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis (als Mitglied des Atapuerca-Teams)
  • 1989: Medaille der Universität Helsinki
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