Education
Born March 6, 1948 in Richmond, Virginia, Schwartz earned his bachelor"s degree from Columbia College in 1969 and completed his doctorate from Columbia University in 1974.
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The Human Fossil Record (4 volume set) (with Ian Tattersall et al). New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2005. . The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins (Revised and Updated edition).
Boulder: Westview Press. 2005. . Extinct Humans (with Ian Tattersall). Boulder: Westview Press.
2000. . Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1999. . Skeleton Keys: An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology, Development, and Analysis.
New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. . What the Bones Tell Us. New York: Henry Holt.
1993. . Orang-utan Biology. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988. . Film Jeffrey H. Schwartz made an appearance in the documentary film The Trouble with Atheism.
Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz
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Career
Schwartz" research involves the methods, theories, and philosophies in evolutionary biology, including the origins and diversification of primates. He has done substantial fieldwork and museum research in the collections of major museums around the globe. In the revised and updated publication of The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins, he presents additional evidence for his contention that orangutans share significantly more morphological similarities to humans than any other great ape.
His claim is invalidated in light of molecular evidence showing the chimpanzees and gorillas to be more closely related to humans.
He has also been a major contributor to the George Washington project, an attempt to create wax figure likenesses of the first United States. President at the ages of 19, 45, and 57, based upon dentofacial morphology. Scheduled for public display in 2006 in a new education center and museum at Mount Vernon, the models also went on a 9-city national tour to promote the museum.
Since 1998 he serves as a consultant in forensic anthropology to the Allegheny County coroner"s office. In 2007 he was elected President of the World Academy of Art and Science for a five-year term (one year as president-elect).
He was the first person so elected, all previous presidents having been directly appointed by trustees of the organization.
Schwartz is the son of Jack Schwartz, a doctor who did quinine research during World World War II, and Lillian Schwartz, one of the earliest visual artists to utilize computer imaging.
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Other Work
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The Human Fossil Record (4 volume set) (with Ian Tattersall et al). New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2005. . The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins (Revised and Updated edition).
Boulder: Westview Press. 2005. . Extinct Humans (with Ian Tattersall). Boulder: Westview Press.
2000. . Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1999. . Skeleton Keys: An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology, Development, and Analysis.
New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. . What the Bones Tell Us. New York: Henry Holt.
1993. . Orang-utan Biology. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988. . Film Jeffrey H. Schwartz made an appearance in the documentary film The Trouble with Atheism.
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