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Peter John Andrews (* January 31 1940 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a British paleoanthropologist. He worked at the Natural History Museum in London from 1974 to 2000 and became Honorary Professor at University College London in 1996. From 2000 he was also a curator at the Blandford Museum in Dorset.

Life
Andrews initially studied Forestry Science at the University of Aberdeen up to his bachelor's degree (1961) and acquired a Master in the same subject at the University of Toronto in 1963. -Degree. From 1964 to 1967 he worked for the Ministry of Forestry in Kenya. Returning to England, Andrews began a second degree in anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where he received a second master's degree in 1972 and a Doctor degree with a study in 1973 about East Africanniche Primates of the Miocene; Peter Andrews: Miocene Primates (Pongidae, Hylobatidae) of East Africa. Dissertation, Cambridge University 1973. during this time he worked as a research assistant for Louis Leakey in Kenya in 1969/70. After another stay (1973/74) at the Nairobi National Museum, he began working at the Natural History Museum in London in 1974 and - after his retirement - at the Blandford Museum in Dorset in 2000.

Peter Andrews is a member of, among others, the Linnean Society of London, the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Primate Society of Great Britain. He works as an expert for English Heritage. His students included Terry Harrison and Louise Leakey.

Research
Due to his double degree, Peter Andrews works in several related areas of expertise. After various research stays in Africa, he researched, among other things, the phylogeny of the orangutans as well as fossil primates near Paşalar in Turkey. His numerous publications include the First description of Kenyapithecus kizili from Paşalar and from Proconsul meswae from Kenya. He is also considered an expert in the field of fossilization theory (taphonomy) and has published on topics in the field of paleoecology.

Together with Chris Stringer, he published an influential study in the journal Nature in 1988, in which the genus Homo with the genetic data published in 1987 on the so-called mitochondrial Eve were related. In this way, the Out-of-Africa theory on the emergence of modern humans (Homo sapiens) was supported by a method that was independent of the anatomical findings.

Honors

 * 1997: Prince of Asturias Prize (as a member of the Atapuerca team)
 * 1989: Medal from the University of Helsinki

Book publications (selection)

 * with Jens L. Franzen (ed.): The Early Evolution of Man. With Special Emphasis on Southeast Asia and Africa. Senckenberg naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 978-3-924500-05-4; at the same time: Courier Research Institute Senckenberg. Volume 69, 1984, pp. 1–277.
 * with Chris Stringer: Human Evolution. An Illustrated Guide. The British Museum and the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 978-0-521-38824-5.
 * Owls, Caves, and Fossils: Predation, Preservation, and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves. University of Chicago Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-02037-2.
 * An Ape's View of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-316-18093-8.

Web links

 * Website by Peter Andrews at Blandford Museum. With link to Curriculum vitae. Accessed February 5, 2022.

Evidence
Category:Paleoanthropologist (United Kingdom) Category:Evolutionary Biologist Category:University College London) Category:Member of the Linnean Society of London Category:Person (São Paulo) Category:British Category:Born 1940 Category:Man