Matthew Cartmill is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology in the

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, where he formerly served as Chair of Anthropology.

Education and career

Cartmill was educated at

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and the

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. He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1970, eventually becoming Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Anthropology there. He left Duke to join the faculty of Boston University in 2008. He was a founding editor of the '' International Journal of Primatology'' from 1978 to 1989,

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of the ''

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'' from 1989 to 1995, and served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 1997 to 1999. He also served as the senior associate editor for the ''International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology''.

Honors and awards

Cartmill was elected a fellow of the

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in 1983 and received a

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in 1985. His 1993 book ''A View to a Death in the Morning'' received both the

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Award from the

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and the

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Book Award from the American Society for Environmental History. In 2019, he received the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Personal life

Cartmill is the son of

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author

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. He was born on January 4, 1943, in

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. He has been married to Kaye Brown since May 29, 1971.

References

External links

Faculty profile
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