Tim D. White

Tim D. White
White at the 2010 Time 100 Gala
Born	Timothy Douglas White (1950-08-24) August 24, 1950 (age 73) Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Riverside (B.A.) University of Michigan (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)	Professor of Integrative Biology at the Project Curator of Biological Anthropology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Advisor, National Center for Science Education
Known for	Assisted in the excavation of the Laetoli footprints (1976) Co-author of the analysis of Lucy (1978) Discovery of Ardipithecus (1992) Discovery of Australopithecus garhi (1994) Discovery of Ardipithecus kadabba (2004)

Tim D. White (born August 24, 1950) is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for leading the team which discovered Ardi, the type specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old likely human ancestor. Prior to that discovery, his early career was notable for his work on Lucy as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson.