Tributes to
J. Desmond Clark
1916-2002
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I'm sure that many of my colleagies in journalism would join me in remembering how invariably generous Dr. Clark was in helping us interpret the complexities of hominid evolution; in offering us unbiased comments when we needed to perform our strange version of peer-review, and for his always gently-worded suggestions for improvement when we asked him if what we were about to write was a reasonable interpretation of some scientific paper we had trouble understanding. I often wished I had chosen his field as my own and had had Dr. Clark as a mentor.

-David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle