Bernard Wood is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Origins in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University, and Adjunct Senior Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution. He is a medically-qualified paleoanthropologist who moved into full-time academic life in 1972. He holds the degrees of B.Sc., M.D., Ph.D., and D.Sc. from The University of London. In 1982 he was appointed to the S.A. Courtauld Chair of Anatomy in The University of London, and in 1985 he moved to the Derby Chair of Anatomy and to the Chairmanship of the Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Liverpool. He was appointed the Dean of The University of Liverpool Medical School in 1995 and served as Dean until his move to Washington in the fall of 1997.When he was still a medical student he joined Richard Leakey's first expedition to what was then Lake Rudolf in 1968 and he has remained associated with that research group, and pursued research in paleoanthropology, ever since. His research centers on increasing our understanding of human evolutionary history by developing and improving the ways we analyze the hominid fossil record.  He is the author of numerous publications and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at GWU.

"There is a lot of information in it and the topics are well-described. As the title makes explicit, it is aimed at students, but it would be of use to anyone with more than a passing interest in human evolution. Even the expert might find it useful for the listing of fossils and sites." (Reference Reviews 2015)

• Preface and Acknowledgments viWiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution viiiHominin Fossil Abbreviations ixA 1B 27C 47D 86E 103F 124G 144H 166I 200J 209K 212L 227M 249N 288O 300P 318Q 364R 366S.380T 419U 442V 447W 453X 458Y 459Z 460

Bernard Wood is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Origins in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University, and Adjunct Senior Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution. He is a medically-qualified paleoanthropologist who moved into full-time academic life in 1972. He holds the degrees of B.Sc., M.D., Ph.D., and D.Sc. from The University of London. In 1982 he was appointed to the S.A. Courtauld Chair of Anatomy in The University of London, and in 1985 he moved to the Derby Chair of Anatomy and to the Chairmanship of the Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Liverpool. He was appointed the Dean of The University of Liverpool Medical School in 1995 and served as Dean until his move to Washington in the fall of 1997.When he was still a medical student he joined Richard Leakey's first expedition to what was then Lake Rudolf in 1968 and he has remained associated with that research group, and pursued research in paleoanthropology, ever since. His research centers on increasing our understanding of human evolutionary history by developing and improving the ways we analyze the hominid fossil record.  He is the author of numerous publications and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at GWU.

"There is a lot of information in it and the topics are well-described. As the title makes explicit, it is aimed at students, but it would be of use to anyone with more than a passing interest in human evolution. Even the expert might find it useful for the listing of fossils and sites." (Reference Reviews 2015)

• Preface and Acknowledgments viWiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution viiiHominin Fossil Abbreviations ixA 1B 27C 47D 86E 103F 124G 144H 166I 200J 209K 212L 227M 249N 288O 300P 318Q 364R 366S.380T 419U 442V 447W 453X 458Y 459Z 460