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Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus (born December 24, 1948) is an American paleoanthropologist specializing in Neandertal and early modern human biology and human evolution. Trinkaus researches the evolution of the species ''Homo sapiens'' and recent human diversity, focusing on the paleoanthropology and emergence of late archaic and early modern humans, and the subsequent evolution of anatomically modern humanity. Trinkaus is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor Emeritus of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a frequent contributor to publications such as ''Science'', ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'', ''PLOS One'', ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', and the ''Journal of Human Evolution'' and has written/co-written or edited/co-edited fifteen books in paleoanthropology. He is frequently quoted in the popular media. Provided by Wikipedia