# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sherwood-washburn
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:43:33.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sherwood-washburn"
name: "Sherwood Washburn"
slug: "sherwood-washburn"
description: "Sherwood Larned Washburn, nicknamed \"Sherry\", was an American physical anthropologist, and \"a legend in the field.\" He was a pioneer in the field of primatology, opening it to the study of primates in their natural habitats. His research and influence in the comparative analysis of primate behaviors to theories of human origins established a new course of study within the field of human evolution. He changed the field of anthropology with the publication of his paper The New Physical Anthropology, in 1951, in which he argued, convincingly, that human variation was continuous, and could not be broken up into discontinuous races."
tagline: "American archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian and paleoanthropologist (1911–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/SLWashburn.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-11-26"
deathDate: "2000-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.878546666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "شيروود واشبورن"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_L._Washburn"
    title: "Sherwood L. Washburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Washburn"
    title: "Sherwood Washburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Washburn"
    title: "Sherwood Washburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Washburn"
    title: "Sherwood Washburn"
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    title: "Շերվուդ Վոշբըրն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уошберн, Шервуд"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump