Background
Walker, Alan C. was born on August 23, 1938 in Leicester, England. Arrived in the United States, 1973. Son of Cyril and Edith Walker.
anthropologist archaeologist biologist paleontologist university professor
Walker, Alan C. was born on August 23, 1938 in Leicester, England. Arrived in the United States, 1973. Son of Cyril and Edith Walker.
Bachelor with honors, University Cambridge, England, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1967. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 2000.
Lecturer Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda, 1965—1969. Senior lecturer Nairobi University, Kenya, 1969—1973. Associate professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973—1978.
Professor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1978—1995. Professor anthropology Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1995—1996, Distinguished professor, 1996—2002, Evan Pugh professor, since 2002. With Royal Air Force, 1957-1959.
National Academy of Sciences]
Walker was a member of the team led by Richard Leakey responsible for the 1984 discovery of the skeleton of the so-called Turkana Boy, and in 1985 Walker himself discovered the Black Skull near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
Married Patty L. Shipman, April 20, 1976. 1 child Simon B.