Distinctions
- 2001 Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
- 2003 Elected Fellow of British Academy
- 2003-6 Vice President, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- 2004-6 President, Anthropology and Archaeology Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2007-9 President, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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“Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.”
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