Tom Shipley, Viv Prince, Jeff Meldrum, and Polly Holliday Dies

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These individuals have performed in the highly successful rock band, Brewer and Shipley; was the drummer for the band the Pretty Things; was an American anthropologist and academic, an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates; and was an actress in movies such as All the President’s Men, Gremlins and Mrs. Doubtfire, and played the character Flo, in the television series Alice and Flo.

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Dr. Jeff Meldrum

His research encompasses vertebrate evolutionary morphology, with a particular focus on primate locomotor adaptations and the emergence of modern human bipedalism.

Dr. Don Jeffrey “Jeff” Meldrum, born on May 24, 1958, in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a prominent American anthropologist renowned for his expertise in primate locomotion and foot morphology. He earned his Bachelor of Science in zoology, focusing on vertebrate locomotion, from Brigham Young University in 1982, followed by a Master of Science from the same institution in 1984.

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