# overview
I have research interests in Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominin Evolution and Systematics, Asia, Human Variation, Quantitative Methods, Craniofacial Biology, and History of Biological Anthropology and Race.

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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University of Pennsylvania - (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Washington University in St. Louis - (St Louis, Missouri, United States)

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Boston University - (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)

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Was Homo heidelbergensis in South Asia? A test using the Narmada fossil from central India

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"But You're Not a Real Minority": The Marginalization of Asian Voices in Paleoanthropology

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Evolution of cranial capacity revisited: A view from the late Middle Pleistocene cranium from Xujiayao, China.

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Colonialism and narratives of human origins in Asia and Africa

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Colonialism and narratives of human origins in Asia and Africa

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South Asia as a geographic crossroad: Patterns and predictions of hominin morphology in Pleistocene India.

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Impact of character correlation and variable groupings on modern human population tree resolution.

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The frontal bone in the genus Homo: a survey of functional and phylogenetic sources of variation.

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Journal of Anthropological Sciences / Rivista di Antropologia - JASS / Istituto Italiano di Antropologia

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Comment on Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity

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A description of the geological context, discrete traits, and linear morphometrics of the Middle Pleistocene hominin from Dali, Shaanxi Province, China.

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A comparative study of frontal bone morphology among Pleistocene hominin fossil groups.

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A morphometric analysis of the frontal squama in fossil and recent humans

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Proceedings of the 90th Business Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

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The modernity that wasn't: The archaic state of contemporary human origins

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Paleoanthropology: Decolonizing and Building for the Future

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An examination of modern human cranial variation using frontal bone morphometrics

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Proceedings of the 91st Business Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.

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A rare tribal (adivasi) burial from the lower Narmada River valley at Rampura, Gujarat, Western India

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Assessing the relationship of Asian Middle Pleistocene Homo to other regional populations using frontal bone morphology

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Hominin evolution and diversity: a comparison of earlier-Middle and later-Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil variation in China.

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Patterning of geographic variation in Middle Pleistocene Homo frontal bone morphology.

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Picking a Bone with Evolutionary Essentialism

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An early modern human from the Petera cu Oase, Romania.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Quantitative morphological analysis of bovid teeth and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Plovers Lake, Gauteng Province, South Africa

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Conceptual issues in hominin taxonomy: Homo heidelbergensis and an ethnobiological reframing of species.

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Comment on Modern Human versus Neandertal Evolutionary Distinctiveness

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Geometric variation of the frontal squama in the genus homo: frontal bulging and the origin of modern human morphology.

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Does the Dali cranium belong to Homo heidelbergensis?

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Upholding "good science" in human origins research: A response to Chan et al (2019)

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ESR response in tooth enamel to high-resolution CT scanning

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Is Central Asia the eastern outpost of the Neandertal range? A reassessment of the Teshik-Tash child.

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How (not!) to perpetuate biological race in paleoanthropology

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A multivariate assessment of the Dali hominin cranium from China: Morphological affinities and implications for Pleistocene evolution in East Asia.

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Unpacking the explorer narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology

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Modern human emergence in South Asia: A review of the fossil and genetic evidence

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South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India

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A comparative study of frontal bone morphology among Pleistocene hominin fossil groups

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A Multidisciplinary Study of Early Homo Sapiens in India: Re-evaluating “Anatomical  Modernity

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Anthropology; 4352 TAMU

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Anthropologist Sheela Athreya Uncovers India’s Voice in the Human Origin Story

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120,000-year-old fossils in Israel link to human family tree

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‘Dragon Man’ skull may help oust Neandertals as our closest ancient relative

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Bible, Rachael Cloud (2016-12). An Analysis of Late Pleistocene Hominin Population Dynamics in Europe Using Ecological Niche Modeling Methods. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Moody, Brittany Leigh Staff (2017-12). An Analysis of Morphological Differences in the Femoral Diaphyseal Midshaft Between Fossil and Modern Humans. Master's Thesis.