Eric Delson

Background

Delson, Eric was born on January 18, 1945 in New York City. Son of Robert and Marjorie Delson.

Education

Bachelor, Harvard College, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy in Geology, Columbia University, 1973.

Career

Assistant professor anthropology, U. Pittsburgh, 1972-1973; assistant professor anthropology, CUNY Lehman College & Graduate School, 1973-1975; associate professor anthropology, CUNY Lehman College & Graduate School, 1975-1979; professor anthropology, CUNY Lehman College & Graduate School, New York City, since 1980; professor biology, CUNY Graduate School, New York City, since 1986; coordinator physical anthropology graduate program, CUNY Graduate School, 1978-1979, 83-93; research associate vertebrate paleontology, American Museum Natural History, New York City, since 1975; director, New York Consortium Evolutionary Primatology, since 1992. Consultant New York Zoological Society, American Museum Natural History, since 1989. Member science Executive Committee liberal studies.B. Leakey Foundation, Oakland, California, 1990-1993.

Member executive advisory board Encyclopedia Human Biology and Dictionary of Science and Technology, since 1988. Science associate Institute Human Origins, Berkeley, California, 1982-1987. Visiting professor.anthropology Yale University, New Haven, 1980.

Achievements

• Eric Delson has been listed as a noteworthy Anthropology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Paleoanthropology Vol 1 1990 (Paleoanthropology Annual)

    (First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)

  • Evolutionary History of the Primates
  • Evolutionary History of the Primates by Frederick S. Szalay (1980-02-11)

Membership

Member Paleoanthropology Delaware to People's Republic of China, 1975, National.Del. to International Quaternary Association Congress, Moscow, 1982. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Paleoanthropology Society, Society Vertebrate Paleontology, International Association Human Paleontology, American Association Physical Anthropologists, American Anthropol. Association, American Society Primatologists, International Primatol.

Society, International Quaternary Association, American Society Mammalogists, Society Study Evolution, Society Systematic Biology, Willi Hennig Society.

Connections

Married Roberta Alice Marx, September 17,1967. 1 child, William Charles.

Father:

Robert Delson

Mother:

Marjorie Delson

Spouse:

Roberta Alice Marx

child:

William Charles Delson