Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison FRAI (8 June 1927 – 14 September 2017) was an English biological anthropologist who taught at the University of Oxford.
At Cambridge, he became interested in anthropology after attending a lecture on Australopithecus by paleontologist Robert Broom.
[1] He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for his work on the adaptation of mice to warm environments, which he conducted under the supervision of Joseph Weiner.
[2] Harrison's first academic position was as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, where he studied skin pigmentation.
[1][2] As a faculty member at Oxford, he was noted for his central role in the founding of the Human Sciences degree.