Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bryan Patterson, Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology Emeritus and an expert on the evolution of mammals died Saturday...
...Patterson led the 1971 expedition to Kenya that unearthed the jawbore of a five-million-year-old ancestor of modern man, Australopithecus. At that time, it was the oldest known Australopithecus specimen...
...Patterson also gained recognition for his studies of the fossil vertebrates of South America...
Born in London in March, 1909, Patterson attended Malvern College, England, and the University of Chicago...
...Patterson, who says that the executive committee has identified "several very good and exciting possibilities" for tenure, calls the report "obsolete," although he adds that "everyone contacted knows the situation here very well...