John Relethford

{{short description|American anthropologist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = John Relethford | honorific_suffix = | birth_name = John Henry Relethford | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Biological anthropology | workplaces = State University of New York at Oneonta | patrons = | education = State University of New York at Albany (Ph.D., 1980) | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Population structure and anthropometric variation in rural Western Ireland | thesis_url = https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=7293451 | thesis_year = 1980 | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = 2017 Gabriel Lasker Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''John H. Relethford''' is an American biological anthropologist and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta). He is also an adjunct professor at Binghamton University.

==Education and career== Relethford received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1980. Before joining SUNY Oneonta, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Genetics at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. He was named a Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1998.<ref name="faculty">{{cite web | url=https://suny.oneonta.edu/anthropology/faculty-staff | title=John Relethford | work=SUNY Oneonta | accessdate=3 June 2017}}</ref> From 2006 to 2007, he was the president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.physanth.org/news/1029/ | title=The Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award in 2017: John H. Relethford | publisher=American Association of Physical Anthropologists | work=News | date=18 January 2017 | accessdate=3 June 2017 | author=Stone, Anne C.}}</ref>

==Research== Relethford's research focuses on human population genetics and the evolutionary origin of modern humans.<ref name="faculty"/> For example, he has proposed his own version of the "Out of Africa" model, the standard theory for the evolution of modern humans; he has described his model as placing human origins "mostly out of Africa".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/us/a-different-take-on-human-origins.html | title=A Different Take on Human Origins | work=The New York Times | date=7 March 2002 | accessdate=3 June 2017 | author=Wilford, John Noble}}</ref>

==Honors and awards== Relethford received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994–1995, and the first recipient of SUNY Oneonta's Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence in 1995. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2017, he received the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' Gabriel Lasker Distinguished Service Award.<ref name="faculty"/>

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==External links== *[http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/anthro/faculty/Relethford.asp Relethford's faculty page] {{Authority control}}

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