caption death_date death_place religion birth_place citizenship nationality ethnicity field work_institutions birth_date known_for residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
family photograph 10 march 2007 berkeley , california atheist kansas city , missouri united states united states caucasian physical anthropology , archeology , paleontology university of chicago university of california at berkeley 27 november 1925 human -rrb- , asia -lrb- turkey -rrb- , europe -lrb- spain evolutionary -rrb- ; considered the father of the modern integrative approach development to human evolutionary studies in africa -lrb- ethiopia , tanzania united states leakey award -rrb- ; fellows ' medal ; member of national prize academy of science -lrb- usa -rrb- and french and british -lrb- science academies . lsb leakey foundation -rrb- ; darwin francis clark howell
 francis clark howell university of chicago
francis clark howell

francis clark howell -lrb- november 27 , 1925 -- march 10 , 2007 -rrb- , generally known as `` f. clark howell '' , was an american anthropologist .
he altered the landscape of his discipline irrevocably by adding a broad spectrum of modern sciences to the traditional `` stones and bones '' approach of the past and is considered the father of modern paleo-anthropology .
-lsb- http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=23873] born in kansas city , missouri , f. clark howell grew up in kansas , where he became interested in natural history .
he served in the u.s. navy during world war ii , from 1944 to 1946 in the pacific theater .
howell was educated at the university of chicago , where he received his ph.b. , a.m. and ph.d. degrees under the tutelage of sherwood l. washburn .
dr. howell died of metastatic lung cancer on march 10 , 2007 at age 81 at his home in berkeley , california .
