| Frank B. Livingstone | |
| Birth Date: | December 8, 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Springfield, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University (B.A.) |
| Occupation: | Anthropologist |
| Relations: | Guy P. Livingstone (father) |
Frank B. Livingstone (December 8, 1928March 21, 2005) was an American biological anthropologist.
Livingstone was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, to Guy P. Livingstone and Margery Brown Livingstone.[1] He graduated from Winchester High School in 1946 and earned his bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Harvard University in 1950.[1] [2] He completed a doctoral degree in 1957 and joined the University of Michigan’s anthropology faculty in 1959 where he became Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology.[1] [3]
Livingstone's primary area of research was genetic variation in modern human populations.[2] For his groundbreaking work on sickle cell anemia, Livingstone was awarded the Martin Luther King Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.[1] [2] After his retirement in 1998, Livingstone was awarded the Charles R. Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA).[1] In 2002, a symposium was held in his honor at the annual meeting of the AAPA in Buffalo, New York.[3]
Livingstone died on March 21, 2005, in Springfield, Ohio, due to complications from Parkinson's disease.[1]