Physical anthropology

Physical anthropology, sometimes called "biological anthropology", studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. See also: Race.

Renowned paleoanthropologists

• Davidson Black (1884-1934)
• Robert Broom (1866-1951)
• Carleton S. Coon (1904-1981)
• Raymond Dart (1893-1988)
• Eugene Dubois (1858-1940)
• Earnest Hooton (1887-1954)
• Donald C. Johanson (1943- )
• Louis Leakey (1903-1972)
• Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
• Richard Leakey (1944- )
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
• Milford H. Wolpoff (1942- )