Russell H. Tuttle

About

Contact Information

Office: Haskell 134 / Haskell 027
Phone: (773) 702-7719
Email: rhtuttle@uchicago.edu
Website: n/a

(PhD, UC Berkeley 1965) Professor of Anthropology, of Evolutionary Biology, of the Biological and Social Sciences in the College, and in the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, conducts field and experimental laboratory studies pertaining to the evolution of human and nonhuman primate morphology, locomotion, and other behavior. He is also engaged in paleoanthropology, particularly the evolution of bipedalism and of the human hand, and the history of theories of hominoid evolution and of social prejudice in physical anthropology. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Primatology (1988-2010), and Series Editor, Developments in Primatology: Progresss and Prospects.

Selected Publications

Year Title / Publications PDF
2013 Apes and Human Evolution. Harvard University Press (forthcoming)
2008 Footprint clues in hominid evolution and forensics: lessons and limitations. Ichnos. 15:158-165.
2007 Love, Knowledge, and the Evolution of a Mentor. In Joys of Teaching Anthropology, P.C. Rice, C.P. Kottak, and d.C. McCurdy, pp, 91-100. Boston: McGraw Hill.
2006 Animalia, Homo and the Kingdom of God. Zygon. 41: 139-168.
2006 Hidemi Ishida: 40 Years of Footprints in Japanese Primatology and Paleoanthropology. In Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds, Eds. H. Ishida, R.H. Tuttle, M. Pickford, M. Nakatsukasa & N. Ogihara, pp. 1-14, New York: Springer.
2006 Are Human Beings Apes, or Are Apes People Too? In Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds, Eds. H. Ishida, R.H. Tuttle, M. Pickford, M. Nakatsukasa & N. Ogihara, pp. 245-254, New York: Springer.
2006 Neontological Perspectives on East African Middle and Late Miocene Anthropoidea. In Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds, Eds. H. Ishida, R.H. Tuttle, M. Pickford, M. Nakatsukasa & N. Ogihara, pp. 205-219, New York: Springer.
2006 Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies. In Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds, Eds. H. Ishida, R.H. Tuttle, M. Pickford, M. Nakatsukasa & N. Ogihara, pp. 15-29, New York: Springer.
2005 Human Evolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica 18:412-424, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Chicago, IL.
2002 Paleoanthropology Read in Tooth and Nail. Reviews in Anthropology. 31: 103-128.
2001 On Culture and Traditional Chimpanzees. Current Anthropology. 42(3): 407-408.
2001 Fossils, Phylogenies and Feelings. In B.B. Beck, et al., eds., Great Apes and Humans. The Ethics of Coexistence. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 178-90.
1998 Heel, squat, stand, stride: function and evolution of hominoid feet. (with B. Hallgrimsson & T. Stein). In E. Strasser, et al., eds. Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances. Plenum Press, 435-448.
1996 The Laetoli hominid G Footprints. Where do they stand today? Kaupia 6:97-102.
1994 Up From Electromyography: Primate Energetics and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism. In R.S. Corruccini and R.L. Ciochon, eds., Integrative Paths to the Past: Paleoanthropological Advances in Honor of F. Clark Howell. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 269-284.
1992 Hands from Newt to Napier. In S. Matano, R.H. Tuttle, H. Ishida, and M. Goodman, eds., Topics in Primatology, vol. 3: Evolutionary Biology, Reproductive Endocrinology and Virology. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, pp. 3-20.
1988 What’s new in African paleoanthropology? Annual Reviews of Anthropology 17:391-426.
1986 Apes of the World. Their Social Behavior, Communication, Mentality and Ecology. Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Publications.