Rick Potts
| Rick Potts | |
|---|---|
| Potts displaying Oldowan stone choppers, roughly 2 million years old. These are the oldest hominin tools in the Smithsonian. | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleoanthropology | 
| Institutions | Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History | 
Richard B. Potts is a paleoanthropologist and has been the director of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program since 1985. He is the curator of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian.