Alice M. Brues (1913–2007), a pioneer in biological anthropology, contributed to the fields of human genetics and variation, anthropometry, biomechanics, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and computer simulation of evolutionary processes. Several of her publications are extolled as classics. She taught gross anatomy at the University of Oklahoma Medical School from 1946 to 1965, until recruited by the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder. She worked there until her retirement in 1984. To honor her vast achievements as a foremother of the field, the American Association of Physical Anthropology named Brues one of three inaugural recipients of the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. She died in 2007 in Louisville, Colorado.