Russell Tuttle

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Russell Tuttle

| birth_name = Russell Howard Tuttle

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|08|18}}

| nationality = American

| fields = Paleoanthropology
Linguistics
Archaeology
Sociocultural anthropology
Biological anthropology

| workplaces = University of Chicago

}}

Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939) is a distinguished primate morphologist,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l7sfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5430,2383827&dq=russell-tuttle|title=Scientists Seeking Link with New Methods|date=20 July 1971|work=Gadsden Times|page=3}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VwNSAAAAIBAJ&pg=6765,3998455&dq=russell-tuttle|title=Fingers Indicate Man Didn't Descent from Tree Swingers|date=18 July 1969|work=Oxnard Press-Courier|page=11}} paleoanthropologist, and a four-field (linguistics, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and biological anthropology) trained Anthropologist.{{cite journal|author1=Harper, Kyle|author2=Nyhart, Lynn|author3=Radin, Joanna|author4=Tuttle, Russell|author5=Thomas, Julia|author6=Lyon, Jonathan|title="Bio-History in the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Study on the Past and Present of Human Life"|journal=Chicago Journal of History|year=2016|issue=7|page=10}} He is currently an active Professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago.{{cite news|url=https://www.livescience.com/1934-human-ancestors-walked-upright-study-claims.html|title=Human Ancestors Walked Upright, Study Claims|author=Choi, Charles Q.|date=9 October 2007|work=LiveScience|access-date=10 January 2020}} Tuttle was enlisted by Mary Leakey to analyze the 3.4-million-year-old footprints she discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania. He determined that the creatures that left these prints walked bipedally in a fashion almost identical to human beings.{{cite news|title=SCIENCE WATCH; The Upright Primates|date=3 August 1982|work=The New York Times|page=C4}} He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Tuttle was named Guggenheim Fellow in 1985{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/russell-h-tuttle/|title=Russell H. Tuttle|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|access-date=January 9, 2020}} and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.{{cite news|url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/aaas.shtml|author=Steve Koppes|title=Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows|work=University of Chicago Chronicle|volume=78|number=4|date=November 6, 2003}}