Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American physical anthropologist[1] and professor emeritus of biological anthropology and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a fellow and President of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) from 2008-2012.
Schwartz' research involves the methods, theories, and philosophies in evolutionary biology, including the origin and diversification of primates.
[2] He has also been a major contributor to the George Washington project, an attempt to create wax figure likenesses of the first U.S. President at the ages of 19, 45, and 57, based upon craniofacial morphology.
[1] In 2007 he was elected President of the World Academy of Art and Science for a five-year term (one year as president-elect).
He was also featured on the Daily Show with John Stewart opposite Evolutionary Biologist and noted TV personality Todd Disotell.