Sadly, Charles Lockwood of UCL died today as the result of a motorcycle accident, it is reported by John Lynch (who in turn was notified earlier today). Lockwood was a morphologist trained at Wits in South Africa with a post doc at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University (formerly of Berkeley). I think he moved fairly recently to the University College London.
Here's a recent (late last year) story in the Times on Lockwood's work.
Please read John's blog post on Lockwood.
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