Glenn C. Conroy, Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology
Anthropology
Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology Program
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Office Phone: 314-362-3397
Lab Phone:
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FAX: 314-362-3446
Box: 8108
Lab Address: 3820 North Building
Email: conroyg@wustl.edu
Website: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/blurb/b_conroy.html
Keywords: evolution; imaging; human evolution; paleontology; growth and maturation
Short Research Description: Human evolution; primate evolution; computed tomography. |
Research Abstract:
Work in my laboratory is focused upon the analysis of paleontological evidence for primate evolution, particularly over the past 15 million years of earth history. Of particular interest is the time period between 15 to 5 million years ago, the temporal framework within which humans and African apes diverged. In conjunction with the medical imaging laboratory of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and the University of Vienna, we are currently applying state-of-the-art computer imaging techniques to investigate anatomical structures in both extinct and extant primates and African fossil hominids. These techniques allow us to create two- and three-dimensional images and to electronically “dissect” fossils. At present, we are using CT to investigate craniodental morphology and patterns of growth and maturation in South African australopithecines. In addition, I am currently involved in a multidisciplinary paleoanthropological field project in South Africa and Ethiopia. |
Selected Publications:
Conroy GC and Smith RJ. The Size of Scalable Brain Components in Homo floresiensis and other early hominins. J Comp Hum Biol (HOMO) 2007 58:1-12.
Conroy GC. Creating, analyzing, and querying paleoanthropolgoical maps using GIS: an example form the Uinta Basin Utah. Evol Anthropol 2006 15:217-223.
Conroy GC. Reconstructing Human Origins: A modern synthesis. W.W. Norton and Co., New York. 1997 557p. (2nd edition 2005)
Conroy GC. The inverse relationship between species diversity and body mass: do primates play by the rules? J Hum Evol 2003 45:783-795.
Conroy GC. Speciosity in the early Homo lineage: too many, too few, or just about right? J Hum Evol 2002 43:607-614. |