Kevin Boyce | |
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Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology B.S. (1995), Harvard University Ph.D. (2001) |
Awards | Charles Schuchert Award (2011) MacArthur Fellowship (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Paleobotany |
C. Kevin Boyce is a paleobotanist. [1] [2] He is best known for winning a MacArthur Award in 2013. Boyce's work deals with the relationship between current and past ecosystems. Prior to his employment at Stanford, Boyce was associated with the University of Chicago.
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Vero Man refers to a set of fossilized human bones found near Vero, Florida, in 1915 and 1916. The human bones were found in association with those of Pleistocene animals. Pleistocene dates range from 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago. The suggestion that humans might have been present in Florida during the Pleistocene was controversial at the time and most of the contemporary archaeologists did not accept that the Vero fossils could be that old.
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