Congratulations to Dr. Cartmill!
The Darwin Award for 2019 has been conferred upon Matt Cartmill, Professor and former Chair of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at BU!
The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor given by the leading international professional society for biological anthropology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. The award is given annually to recognize and honor a distinguished senior scientist who has demonstrated a lifetime of outstanding contributions and commitment to the discipline through scholarship, mentorship, and service.
Professor Cartmill is known internationally for his research and writings on the evolution, anatomy, and behavior of humans and their ancestors, other primates, and other mammals. His most important contributions have been to the study of primate origins, mammalian and primate locomotion, and the evolution of the head and face. He has also written extensively on animal consciousness, the theory of systematics, and the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Prof. Cartmill is the primary author of influential textbooks on human anatomy and evolution. His 1993 book on the intellectual history of hunting, A View to a Death in the Morning, won awards and praise from both scientists and historians. He has served as the President of the AAPA, as the editor of two major journals and two book series (in collaboration with his partner Kaye Brown), and as the Senior Associate Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology.
We are incredibly proud of Dr. Cartmill for achieving this high honor.