Curriculum Vitae
Kevin D. Hunt
Academic Appointments
2005 – Professor, Anthropology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal
Behavior (Core Faculty, 2002), Indiana University
1997 – 2004 Associate Professor, Anthropology and Center for the Integrative Study of
Animal Behavior (Core Faculty, 2002), Indiana University
1991 – 1997 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Adjunct Professor, Animal Behavior
Program, Indiana University
1989 – 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Address
Office: Home: Department of Anthropology 3407 E. Mulberry Drive Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47401 Bloomington, IN 47405 |
Telephone
Office (direct): (812) 855-3857 Department: (812) 855-2555 Fax: (812) 855-4358 Home: (812) 336-9032 |
Electronic
E-mail: kdhunt@indiana.edu
Web Page: http://indiana.edu/~semliki
Education
1989 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ph.D., Biological Anthropology
“Positional behavior in Pan troglodytes at the Mahale Mountains and Gombe
National Parks, Tanzania.” (C.L. Brace and R.W. Wrangham, co-chairs)
1982 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. M.A., Biological Anthropology
1980 University of Tennessee, Knoxville. B.A., Biological Anthropology
(Highest Honors, College Scholar)
Personal
Married to Marion Gewartowski Hunt
Three children: Daniel Walter (born 1990), Marion Alison (b. 1990), David Lloyd
(b. 1993)
Languages
German: Reading intermediate, speaking basic
French: Reading intermediate, speaking basic
Swahili: Reading and speaking basic
Honors and Awards
2007 Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University
2002 Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University
2000 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University
1997 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University
1996 First alternate, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University
1993, 1995 Nominated for Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, by Indiana University.
1990 Chief’s Award, Ann Arbor Police Department, for contribution to the safety and
welfare of the city
1980 Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship Honorable Mention
1980 Phi Kappa Phi Chapter Scholar, University of Tennessee
Other Professional Recognition
1995 – Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
1999 Lexington’s Who’s Who
1999 International Who’s Who of Professionals
Extramural Grants and Fellowships (P.I. in italics)
2010 Excavation of an underwater cavern containing primates, other extinct vertebrates and archaeological remains in Hispaniola: A site under threat. Co-PI with C. Beeker; PI: G.W. Conrad. National Science Foundation, BCS-1042835 ($19,878)
2010 Positional Behavior of Pan paniscus at Lui Kotale, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kevin D. Hunt and Gilbert Ramos. Leakey Foundation ($13,500)
2009 Orangutan and chimpanzee positional behavior. S.K.S. Thorpe and Kevin D. Hunt. Royal Society (UK) International Travel Grant ($3,078.16 [£1917.60])
2008 Positional Behavior of Pan paniscus at Lui Kotale, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kevin D. Hunt and Gilbert Ramos. Leakey Foundation ($11,500)
2004 – 2005 Dry Habitat Chimpanzee Ecology and Conservation at Toro-Semliki, Uganda
(with Randy R. Patrick), Heritage Oil Company ($25,000)
2002 Physical properties of primate ribs: Variation cortical area and second
moments of area. REU Supplement to National Science Foundation BCS 98-
15991 ($2,000)
2000 Dissertation research: Biomechanical investigation of African apes and
influences of positional behavior. Dissertation support for Kristian J. Carlson.
National Science Foundation BCS-0002686 ($7,922).
1998 – 2004 Dry habitat chimpanzee ecology and behavior: Implications for human
bipedalism. National Science Foundation BCS 98-15991 ($108,790)
1996 – 1997 Ecological bases of human bipedalism: study of open habitat chimpanzees at
the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. National Science Foundation,
SGER BNS 97-11124 ($19,758)
1993 Locomotion and posture among primates of the Kibale Forest, Uganda.
USAID/Makerere University Research Subcommittee ($5,863)
1991 Dietary differences between monkeys and apes (co-Investigator with N.L.
Conklin; Principal Investigator R.W. Wrangham), National Science Foundation
BNS 91-20960 ($112,950)
1986 Positional behavior in Pan troglodytes. (to R.W. Wrangham), National
Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Program, BNS-86-09869
($9,630)
1986 Quantification of positional behavior in Pan troglodytes. Sigma Xi ($200)
1986 Positional behavior in Pan troglodytes. Leakey Foundation ($4,095)
1980 Danforth Fellowship Finalist ($250)
Intramural Grants and Fellowships
2009 Study of Dry-Habitat Chimpanzees at Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda.
Faculty Research Support Program ($45,377)
2009 Dry habitat chimpanzee ecology: implications for human evolution. Overseas
Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs ($2,500)
2005 Dry habitat chimpanzee ecology: implications for human evolution. Bridge
Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University ($21,500)
2002 Continuing research on dry habitat chimpanzee ecology: implications for
human evolution. Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University ($8,000)
1999 Dry habitat chimpanzee ecology: implications for human evolution. Summer
Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University ($6,500)
1998 Lilly Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington ($5,000)
1996 Dry habitat chimpanzee ecology: implications for human evolution. Summer
Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University ($6,500)
1994 Instructional technology equipment for the Student Building. (S. Robeson &
K.D. Hunt) Office of Information Technology, Indiana University ($22,800)
1994 Visual imaging for the departments of anthropology and geography. (K.D.
Hunt and S. Robeson) Office of Information Technology, Indiana University
($13,324)
1993 The nature of open-forest food resources: implications for the evolution of bipedalism. Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University ($6,500)
1993 Locomotion and posture among primates of the Kibale Forest, Uganda. RUGS (IU) Emergency Grant-in-Aid, Indiana University ($500)
1991 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University ($4,500)
1988 Rackham (Michigan) Dissertation Fellowship ($4,800)
1986 Margaret Wray French Fellowship ($600)
1986 Horace H. Rackham (Michigan) Dissertation Research Grant ($1,500)
1985 Horace H. Rackham (Michigan) Predissertation Grant ($600)
Honorary Societies
1979 Phi Kappa Phi
1978 Phi Beta Kappa
1976 Phi Eta Sigma
Undergraduate Scholarships
1979 Roddy Upperclassman Scholarship, University of Tennessee
1978 Roddy Upperclassman Scholarship, University of Tennessee
1977 Roddy Upperclassman Scholarship, University of Tennessee
1976 Colonel T. Barton Scholarship, University of Tennessee
1975 Lions Club (Oak Ridge, TN chapter) Scholarship, University of Tennessee
Publications
1. Books.
Manuscript K.D. Hunt. Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee.
In preparation K.D. Hunt (ed.) Refocusing on Human Evolution: Human Paleontology
Inspired by C. Loring Brace.
2. Peer-Reviewed Articles (senior author in italics)
1. 1986 K.D. Hunt and V.J. Vitzthum. Dental metric assessment of the Omo fossils:
Implications for the phylogenetic position of Australopithecus africanus.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 71: 141-155.
2. 1987a C.L. Brace, K.R. Rosenberg and K.D. Hunt. Gradual change in human tooth size
in the late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene. Evolution 41: 705-720.
3. 1987b H. Takasaki and K.D. Hunt. Further medicinal plant consumption in wild
chimpanzees? African Study Monographs 8(2): 125-128.
4. 1990a C.L. Brace and K.D. Hunt. A non-racial craniofacial perspective on human
variation: A(ustralia) to Z(uni). American Journal of Physical Anthropology
82(3): 341-360.
5. 1990b C.L. Brace, M.L. Brace, Yukio Dodo, K.D. Hunt, W.R. Leonard, Li Yongyi, Shao
Xiang-qing, Sood Sangvichien and Zhang Zhenbiao. Micronesians, Asians, Thais
and relations: A craniofacial and odontometric perspective. Micronesica Suppl.
2: 323-348.
6. 1991a K.D. Hunt. Positional behavior in the Hominoidea. International Journal of
Primatology 12(2): 95-118.
7. 1991b R.W. Wrangham, N.L. Conklin, C.A. Chapman and K.D. Hunt. The significance
of fibrous food for Kibale Forest chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society (B) 334: 171-178.
8. 1991c K.D. Hunt. Mechanical implications of chimpanzee positional behavior.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 86: 521-536.
9. 1992a K.D. Hunt. Positional behavior of Pan troglodytes in the Mahale Mountains
Mountains and Gombe Stream National Parks, Tanzania. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology 87(1): 83-107.
10. 1992b K.D. Hunt. Social rank and body size as determinants of positional behavior in
Pan troglodytes. Primates 33(3): 347-357.
11. 1992c C.A. Chapman, L.J. Chapman, R.W. Wrangham, K.D. Hunt, D.L. Gebo and L.J.
Gardner. Estimators of fruit abundance of tropical trees. Biotropica 24(4):
527–531.
12. 1993 R.W. Wrangham, N.L. Conklin, G. Etot, J. Obua, K.D. Hunt, M.D. Hauser and A.P.
Clark. The value of figs to chimpanzees. International Journal of Primatology
14: 243-256.
13. 1994a K.D. Hunt. The evolution of human bipedality: ecology and functional
morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 26: 183-202.
14. 1994b D. M. Doran and K.D. Hunt. The comparative locomotor behavior of
chimpanzees and bonobos: species and habitat differences. In: Chimpanzee
Cultures, R.W. Wrangham, W.C. McGrew, F. de Waal and P.G. Heltne (eds.).
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, pp. 93-108.
15. 1994c K.D. Hunt. Body size effects on vertical climbing among chimpanzees.
International Journal of Primatology 15: 855–865.
16. 1996a K.D. Hunt. The postural feeding hypothesis: an ecological model for the
evolution of bipedalism. South African Journal of Science 92: 77–90.
17. 1996b K.D. Hunt, J.G.H. Cant, D.L. Gebo, M.D. Rose, S.E. Walker, & D. Youlatos.
Standardized descriptions of primate locomotor and postural modes. Primates
37: 363–387.
18. 1998a K.D. Hunt, V.L. Dean, D.W. Fitting, and L. Adler. Ultrasonic determination of
the elastic modulus of human cortical bone. Medical and Biological
Engineering and Computing 6: 51–56.
19. 1998b M.W. Marzke, N. Toth, K. Schick, S. Reece, B. Steinberg, K.D. Hunt, R.L.
Linscheid, and K.-N. An. EMG study of hand muscle recruitment during hard
hammer percussion manufacture of Oldowan tools. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105: 315-333.
20. 1998c R.W. Wrangham, N.L. Conklin-Brittain and K.D. Hunt. Dietary response of
chimpanzees and cercopithecines to seasonal variation in fruit abundance. I.
Antifeedants. International Journal of Primatology. 19: 949-970.
21. 1998d N.L. Conklin-Brittain, R.W. Wrangham, and K.D. Hunt. Dietary response of
chimpanzees and cercopithecines to seasonal variation in fruit abundance. II.
Macronutrients. International Journal of Primatology. 19: 971-998.
22. 2003a Toshisada Nishida, Nadia Corp, Miya Hamai, Toshikazu Hasegawa, Mariko
Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kazuhiko Hosaka, Kevin D. Hunt, Noriko Itoh, Kenji Kawanaka, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, John C. Mitani, Michio Nakamura, Koshi Norikoshi, Tetsuya Sakamaki, Linda Turner, Shigeo Uehara and Koichiro Zamma. Demography, female life history and reproductive profiles among the chimpanzees of Mahale. American Journal of Primatology. 59 (3): 99-121.
24. 2003b K.D. Hunt. The single species hypothesis: truly dead and pushing up bushes, or
still twitching and ripe for resuscitation? Human Biology. 75 (4): 485-502.
25. 2006 K.J. Carlson, D.M. Doran-Sheehy, K.D. Hunt, T. Nishida, A. Yamanaka, and C. Boesch. Locomotor behavior and long bone morphology in individual free-ranging chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution. 50 (4): 394-404.
26. 2007a A. Matsumoto-Oda, M. Hamai, H. Hayaki, K. Hosaka, K.D. Hunt, E. Kasuya, K.
Kawanaka, J.C. Mitani, K. Norikoshi, H. Takasaki and Y. Takahata. Estrus cycle asynchrony in wild female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology. 61(5): 661-668
27. 2007b W.C. McGrew, L.F. Marchant, K.D. Hunt. Ethoarchaeology of manual laterality:
well-digging by wild chimpanzees. Folia Primatologica. 78(4): 240-244.
28. 2007c K.E. Langergraber, H. Siedel, J.C. Mitani, R.W. Wrangham, V. Reynolds, K.
Hunt and L. Vigilant. The genetic signature of sex-biased migration in
chimpanzees and humans. PLoS ONE, 2(10): e973
29. 2010 R.F. Kay, K.D. Hunt, C.D. Beeker, G.W. Conrad, C.C. Johnson and J. Keller. Preliminary notes on a newly discovered skull of the extinct monkey Antillothrix from Hispaniola and the origin of the Greater Antillean monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution, 60(1): 124-128.
30. 2010 W.C. McGrew, L.F. Marchant, C. Payne, T. Webster & K.D. Hunt. Chimpanzees at Semliki Ignore Oil Palms. PAN Africa News 17(2): 19-21.
31. submitted W.C. McGrew and K. D. Hunt. Chimpanzee origami? Pith-folding at Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. PAN Africa News
32. ms. a K.D. Hunt, T. Nishida and R.W. Wrangham. Sex differences in the chimpanzee
positional behavior, activity budget and diet: relative contributions of rank, reproductive demands, and body size. International Journal of Primatology
ms. b K.D. Hunt, M.T. O’Mara, and J. Fuller. Forest composition in a dry riverine
forest chimpanzee habitat at Toro-Semliki, Uganda. intended for Primates.
ms. c K.D. Hunt, J. Fuller, J. Latham, A.J.M. Cleminson, E. Bertram, and R.I.
Weiss. Drinking hole digging by chimpanzees at Semliki Wildlife Reserve,
Uganda. Intended for American Journal of Primatology.
in prep. a R.R. Patrick and K.D. Hunt. Forest soils are neutral and savanna soils are acidic
across a riverine forest-savanna transition at Toro-Semliki, Uganda. Intended
for Paleobiology.
in prep. b R.W. Wrangham, K.D. Hunt and N.L. Conklin-Brittain. Sex differences in diet
in four sympatric Kibale Forest frugivores.
in prep. c K.D. Hunt, J. Fuller, J. Latham, A.J.M. Cleminson, E. Bertram, T. O’Mara, and
R.I. Weiss. Nesting behavior of dry-habitat chimpanzees, at Semliki, Uganda.
in prep. d K.D. Hunt. Suspensory behavior among Kibale chimpanzees decreases when
fruit is more abundant.
in prep. e K.D. Hunt. Chimpanzee positional behavior shows surprising consistency
across habitats ranging from thicket woodland to closed canopy forest.
Intended for International Journal of Primatology.
in prep. f K.D. Hunt and G. M. Thomas. Dry habitat and moist habitat fruit syndromes:
implications for the evolution of bipedalism. Intended for American Journal of
Physical Anthropology.
3. Peer-Reviewed Chapters
1. 1991 C.L. Brace, S.L. Smith and K.D. Hunt. What big teeth you had grandma!
Human tooth size, past and present. In: Advances in Dental Anthropology, M.
A. Kelley and C. S. Larsen (eds.). Wiley-Liss: New York, pp. 33-57.
2. 1998a K.D. Hunt. Ecological morphology of Australopithecus afarensis: traveling
terrestrially, eating arboreally. In: Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances, E.
Strasser, J.G. Fleagle, H.M. McHenry and A. Rosenberger (eds.). Plenum:
New York, pp. 397-418.
3. 1998b D.C. Cook and K.D. Hunt. Sex differences in trace elements: status or self-
selection? In: Gender in Palaeopathological Perspective, A. Grauer & P.L.
Stuart (eds.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-78.
4. 2002 K.D. Hunt and W. C. McGrew. Chimpanzees in dry habitats at Mount Assirik,
Senegal and at the Semliki-Toro Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. In: Behavioural
Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, C. Boesch, G. Hohmann and L.F.
Marchant (eds.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 35-51.
4. Non-Peer-Reviewed Chapters
1. 1991 C.L. Brace, D.P. Tracer and K.D. Hunt. Human craniofacial form and the
evidence for the peopling of the Pacific. Proceedings of the 14th Congress of
the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Bulletin 11: 247-
269.
2. 2002 K.D. Hunt. Primatology as a career. In: A Guide to Careers in Physical
Anthropology, A. S. Ryan (ed.) Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport,
pp. 85-107.
3. 2004 K.D. Hunt. The special demands of Great Ape locomotion and posture. In:
Evolutionary Origin of Great Ape Intelligence, A.E. Russon and D. Begun
(eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 629-699.
4. 2007 K.D. Hunt. Sex differences in chimpanzees foraging behavior and tool use:
Implications for the Oldowan. In: The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age. Nicholas Toth & Kathy Schick (eds.) CRAFT Press, Bloomington,
Indiana.
5. 2010 R.R. Patrick, D. Patrick and K.D. Hunt. Long term changes at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve. In:Long Term changes in Africa’s Rift Valley: impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem, A.J. Plumptre (ed.) NOVA Science Publishers.
5. Encyclopedia Entries, Commentaries, Newsletter Articles and Other Publications
1. 1993 K.D. Hunt. The mosaic lifeway of the early australopithecines: piecing in
some fragments from the world of the chimpanzee. Anthroquest 47: 3–7.
2. 2000 K.D. Hunt. Initiation of a new chimpanzee study site at Semliki-Toro Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda. PanAfrica News. 7 (2): 14-16.
3. 2002 T. O’Mara and K.D. Hunt. The Semliki Chimpanzee Project. The Newsletter,
Primate Foundation of Arizona, 13(2): 1.
4. 2003 V.J. Vitzthum and K.D. Hunt. Frank Livingstone honored at AAPA meetings.
Evolutionary Anthropology, 12(4): 161-163.
5. 2006a K.D. Hunt. Australopithecines, australopiths. In H.J. Birx (ed.) Encylopedia of
Anthropology. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 311-317.
6. 2006b K.D. Hunt. Bipedalism. In H.J. Birx (ed.) Encylopedia of Anthropology.
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 372-377.
7. 2008 C.L.R. Payne, T.H. Webster and K.D. Hunt. Coprophagy by the semi-
habituated chimpanzees of Semliki, Uganda. PanAfrica News. 15 (2): 29-32.
8. 2009 T.H. Webster, Phineas R. Hodson and K.D. Hunt. Observations of the Grooming Hand-Clasp Performed by Chimpanzees of the Mugiri Community, Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. PanAfrica News. 16(1): 5-7.
9. 2011 K.D. Hunt. Is Lethal Violence an Integral Part of Chimpanzee Society? Psychology Today Web Logs, April 14, 2011. http://www.psychologytoday
.com/blog/the-naked-ape/201104/is-lethal-violence-integral-part-chimpanzee-society
6. Abstracts (senior author in italics, *refereed works asterisked)
1. *1984 K.D. Hunt and V.J. Vitzthum. Dental metric assessment of the phylogenetic
position of Australopithecus africanus. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 63(2):172.
2. *1988 C.L. Brace, M.L. Brace and K.D. Hunt. Australia in craniodental perspective.
Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 75(2):189.
3. *1989a K.D. Hunt. Positional Behavior in Pan troglodytes. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.
78(2): 242-243.
4. 1989b Brace, C.L., Y. Li, S.L. Smith, K.D. Hunt, Z. Zhang, and M.L. Brace. A craniofacial
comparison of Circum-Pacific peoples. Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference Program and Abstracts, Seattle, Washington, August 1–6, 1989.
5. *1990 K.D. Hunt. Implications of chimpanzee positional behavior for the
reconstruction of early hominid locomotion and posture. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 81(2): 242.
6. *1991 K.D. Hunt. A test of four predictions of the influence of body size on suspen
sory behavior in chimpanzees. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 12: 95-96.
7. 1992 K.D. Hunt. Sex differences in chimpanzee positional behavior, activity budget
and diet. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. 15(1): 4.
8. *1993 K.D. Hunt. Sex differences in chimpanzee foraging strategies: implications for
the australopithecine toolkit. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 16: 112.
9. *1995a D.C. Cook and K.D. Hunt. Sex differences in trace elements: status or self-
selection? Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 20: 78.
10. *1995b K.D. Hunt and F. Spencer. A multidimensional approach to human evolution:
C. Loring Brace in retrospect. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 20: 114.
11. *1996 R.W. Wrangham, N.L. Conklin-Brittain and K.D. Hunt. Dietary response to
seasonal variation in fruit abundance: chimpanzees compared to frugivorous
monkeys. Abstracts of the 1996 IPA/ASP Congress.
12. *1997a M.W. Marzke, N. Toth, K. Schick, S. Reece, B. Steinberg, K. Hunt, R.L.
Linscheid, and K.N. An. Hard hammer percussion manufacture of tools and
early hominid hand morphology. J. hum. Evol. 32: A11.
13. *1997b S. Reece, B. Steinberg, M.W. Marzke, N. Toth, K. Schick, K. Hunt, R.L.
Linscheid, and K.N. An. Sidescraping, endscraping and the hominid hand. J.
hum. Evol. 32: A17.
14. *1999 K.D. Hunt, A.J.M. Cleminson, J. Latham, R.I. Weiss and S. Grimmond. A
partly habituated community of dry-habitat chimpanzees in the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 28: 157.
15. 2000 K.D. Hunt. Some preliminary observations of a dry-habitat chimpanzee
community in the Semliki-Toro Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. Abstracts of the Behavioral Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos Conference, p. 14.
16. 2001 K.D. Hunt. The tangled thicket of bipedalism origin hypotheses:
Embarrassment of riches, or just embarrassment? American Association of Anthropologists national meeting, December 1, 2001.
17. *2002 K.D. Hunt. The single species hypothesis: truly dead and pushing up bushes, or
still twitching and ripe for resurrection? Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 34: 87.
18. *2004a K.J. Carlson, D.M. Doran, K.D. Hunt, T. Nishida, A. Yamanaka, and C. Boesch.
Cross-sectional geometry and locomotor behavior of habituated chimpanzees from the Tai and Mahale National Parks. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 38: 74.
19. *2004b K.D. Hunt. The cognitive demands of great ape locomotion and posture.
Folia Primatologica (Abstracts of the XX Congress of the International Primatological Society). 75: 281.
20. *2006 K.D. Hunt. Swinging pendulum crops hominin tree. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.
Suppl. 42: 107.
21. *2007 L.F. Marchant, W.C. McGrew, and K.D. Hunt. Ethoarchaeology of manual
laterality: well-digging by wild chimpanzees. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl.
44: 163.
22. *2009 L.F. Marchant, W.C. McGrew, C.L.R. Payne, T.H Webster and K.D. Hunt. Well-
digging by Semliki chimpanzees: New data. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 48:
183.
24. *2009 W.C. McGrew and K.D. Hunt. You Got to Know How to Fold’em: Biassed
Wadge-Folding in Wild Chimpanzees. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 48: 188.
22. *2009 T.H. Webster,L.F. Marchant, W.C. McGrew, C.L.R. Payne and K.D. Hunt.
Semliki Chimpanzees Do Eat Insects. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 48:
268.
23. *2010 L.F. Marchant, T.H. Webster, W.C. McGrew, C.L.R. Payne, and K.D. Hunt.
Chimpanzee insectivory detected: Resource availability, monitoring and consumption. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 50:162-163.
23. *submitted R.F. Kay, K.L. Allen, L.A. Gonzales, K.L. Kruger and K.D. Hunt.
Dietary reconstruction of Antillothrix bernensis, a Holocene monkey from the Dominican Republic. Society
of Vertebrate Paleontology.
7. Book Reviews
1. 1993a Primatology Today, Akiyoshi Ehara, Tasuku Kimura, Osamu Takenaka
and Mitsuo Iwamoto (eds.) American Journal of Physical Anthropology 90: 130-133.
2. 1993b. Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees, R.A. Gardner, B.T. Gardner and T.E.
Van Cantfort (eds.). Journal of Anthropological Linguistics 33: 388-389.
3. 1993c Origine(s) de la Bipédie chez les Hominidés. Y. Coppens and B. Senut (eds.),
International Journal of Primatology 14: 941–944.
4. 1994a Uniquely Human. P. Lieberman. Journal of Anthropological Linguistics. 36:
120–123.
5. 1994b Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective. R.D.E. MacPhee
(ed.) Human Biology 66(6): 1118-1121.
6. 1995a Postcranial Adaptation in Nonhuman Primates. D. L. Gebo (ed.) American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 96: 100-102.
7. 1995b Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus. N. G. Jablonski (ed.)
Animal Behaviour 49: 557-559.
8. 1997 Primate Behavior: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture. D. Quiatt and V. Reynolds. Curr. Anthropol. 38: 322-324.
9. 2006 The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology. William C. McGrew. J. Anthropol. Res. 62 (2): 261-262
8. Reprinted Article (senior author in italics)
1992 R.W. Wrangham, N.L. Conklin, C.A. Chapman, and K.D. Hunt. The
significance of fibrous food for Kibale Forest chimpanzees. In: Foraging
Strategies and Natural Diet of Monkeys, Apes and Humans. W. Whiten, and
E.M. Widdowson (eds.) Oxford University Press: Oxford.
9. Other Publications (manuscripts available on request)
1. n.d. K.D. Hunt. C. Loring Brace IV. Program: Evolution, History and Biological
Anthropology. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual
meeting, Oakland, March 30, 1995, pp. 9-12.
2. n.d. K.D. Hunt. Field work in primatology. http://php.indiana.edu/~kdhunt/
fieldwork.html
Field and Research Experience
2010 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (May-June). One month.
2010 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (Jan.) One month.
2010 Excavation of fossil primates at Padre Nuestro, Dominican Republic (May)
One week.
2009 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (June-July). One month.
2008 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (June-July). One month.
2006 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (June-August). Six weeks.
2005 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (June-July). Three weeks.
2004 Habituation of chimpanzees and other research at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife
Reserve, Uganda (June-August). One and a half months.
2003 Habituation of chimpanzees, establishment of research station, and collection
of ranging, diet and climatological data at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda (July-August). One month.
2002 Habituation of chimpanzees, establishment of research station, and collection
of ranging, diet and climatological data at the Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda (May-June). One month.
2001 Habituation of chimpanzees, establishment of research station, and collection
of ranging, diet and climatological data at the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda (June-July). One and a half months.
2000 Habituation of chimpanzees, establishment of research station, and collection
of ranging, diet and climatological data at the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda (August). One month.
1999 Habituation of chimpanzees, establishment of research station, and collection
of ranging, diet and climatological data at the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda (March, August – September). Two months.
1998 Habituation of chimpanzees, establishment of research station, and collection
of ranging, diet and climatological data at the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda (January – February, August). Three months.
1997 Habituation of chimpanzees and establishment of research station at the
Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. Two months.
1996 Habituation of chimpanzees at the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda.
Three months.
1995 Electromyography of hand and arm musculature during stone tool
manufacture. Collaboration with Mary W. Marzke, Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth. One week.
1993 Feeding ecology and positional behavior research on blue monkeys, redtails,
mangabeys and chimpanzees at the Kibale Forest Reserve, Uganda. Six months.
1990 – 1991 Functional anatomy of fossil hominids. Study of casts of early hominids and
primate skeletons at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Five months.
1989 – 1990 Positional behavior and feeding ecology of chimpanzees, Kibale Forest Reserve,
Uganda. Three months.
1987 – 1988 Research Assistant, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.
Supervisor: C. Loring Brace. Nine months.
1986 – 1987 Positional behavior of chimpanzees and baboons, Gombe and Mahale
Mountains National Parks, Tanzania. One year.
1985 – 1986 Research Assistant, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.
Supervisor: C. Loring Brace. Nine months.
1985 Positional behavior of zoo chimpanzees, Knoxville Zoo, Knoxville, Tennessee.
One month.
1981 Research Assistant, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of
Michigan. Supervisor: Stanley M. Garn. Four months.
1979 – 1980 “Ultrasonic determination of the elastic modulus of human cortical bone.”
Honors Thesis research, University of Tennessee. Supervisors: F.H. Smith, D.W. Fitting and L. Adler. One year.
Presentations
1. Sponsored Lectures
2009 “Planet of the Apes Monkeys: How competition with monkeys drove the evolution of many unique ape and human features” The Stone Age Institute and Indiana University symposium: “ORIGINS: The Evolution of the Universe, the Earth, Life,
and the Human Species. Bloomington, IN, October 10.
2007 “The forest home of early hominins: firm foundation or house of cards?”
New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatologists, December 6. Sponsored
by NYCEP
2007 “Chimpanzee diet, functional morphology, rank and sex differences: bringing it all to bear on the ecology and behavior of the earliest hominins” Hope College Speakers
Series, October 26. Sponsored by the Biology Department.
2007 “Australopithecine paleoecology and habitat reconstruction: forest, savanna, neither or both?” Anthropology Speakers Series. Southern Illinois
University, October 12. Sponsored by the Anthropology Department.
2007 “Ecology of Miocene hominins: perspectives from dry habitat chimpanzee ecology and foraging behavior” Paleontology Meets Primatology Conference. University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, April 19. Sponsored by The National
Science Foundation.
2004 “Chimpanzee socioecology in a hot, dry habitat: implications for early hominin
evolution.” At the symposium “African Great Apes: Diversity and Evolutionary
Perspectives,” Kyoto, March 4. Sponsored by Kyoto University.
2003 “The ecological basis of hominin bipedalism: dry-habitat chimpanzee research yields some surprises.” Stony Brook University, September 4. Sponsored by
Stony Brook University.
2002 “Chimpanzees in a warm, low-rainfall habitat at Toro-Semliki Uganda: what’s so
hot about dry-habitat apes?” University of California, San Diego, November 18.
Sponsored by UCSD.
2002 “Parallels in australopithecine and chimpanzee habitats: implications for early hominin foraging strategies.” Southern California Primate Research Forum,
California State University, San Bernardino, November 16.
2000 “Some preliminary observations of a dry-habitat chimpanzee community in the
Semliki-Toro Wildlife Reserve, Uganda,” Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, June 13. Sponsored by the Max Planck Institute.
2000 “Chimpanzees point to the evolution of human bipedalism: Research at Semliki-
Toro, Uganda” Coalition for National Science Funding, Washington, D.C., May 17. Sponsored by the Indiana University Office of Research and The University Graduate School.
2000 “Chimpanzee food-getting strategies hint at the origin of bipedalism,” Institute
of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 4. Sponsored by the Institute of Human Origins.
1999 “Primate societies: five social solutions to tropical ecology,” Oberlin College,
February 18. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1999 “Evolution of bipedalism: one small step, or one giant leap?” Oberlin College,
February 19. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1999 “Seminar: research on a dry-forest chimpanzee community in the Semliki
Valley,Uganda” Oberlin College, February 19. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1998 “Why can’t we crack the bipedalism nut?” Miami University of Ohio, September
24. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
1998 “The Mio-Pliocene hominid puzzle: when we fit together the pieces, do we
understand the origin of bipedalism?” Miami University of Ohio, September 24. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
1997 “Testing bipedalism origin hypotheses on dry-habitat chimpanzees.” LSB
Leakey Foundation Symposium “Apes and Our Ancestors: Primate Behavior and Hominid Evolution,” Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, December 6.
1996 “Quest for fruit: why bipedalism stood the test of time.” University of
Tennessee Department of Anthropology, November 26. Sponsored by the
Anthropology Visiting Lecture Program.
1996 “Human bipedalism as a two-step phenomenon.” University of Tennessee
Department of Anthropology, November 27. Sponsored by the Anthropology
Visiting Lecture Program.
1995 “Ecological morphology of Australopithecus afarensis: traveling terrestrially,
eating arboreally.” UC Davis, March 27. Sponsored by Wenner-Gren.
1993 “Standing up to chow down: anatomy and ecology in apes and afarensis.”
University of Chicago, Chicago IL, December 7. Sponsored by BBC Horizons Productions.
1991 “Reconstructing australopithecine locomotion and posture: getting there from
here.” Indiana University, January 21. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1991 “Chimp chest, human hip: chimpanzee mechanics as a tool for understanding
the earliest humans.” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, February 15. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1991 “What Fifi had to say about Lucy: a chimp’s eye view of australopithecine
locomotion and posture.” New York University, February 28. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1991 “Sex differences in chimpanzee positional behavior: the influence of social rank
and diet.” Understanding Chimpanzees Conference, Field Museum, Chicago, December 11. Sponsored by Chicago Academy of Sciences.
1989 “Locomotion and posture in the common chimpanzee: data from wild
chimpanzees.” Texas A & M University, February 20. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
1989 “Mechanical interpretations of the positional behavior of Pan troglodytes:
implications for fossil hominid positional evolution.” Rutgers University, April 18. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
2. Presented Papers at Professional Meetings
2006 “Swinging pendulum crops hominin bush,” 75th annual meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. Anchorage, March 10.
2004 “Cognitive demands of great ape locomotion and posture,” XX Congress of the
International Primatological Society. Torino, Italy, August 26.
2002 “The single species hypothesis: truly dead and pushing up bushes, or still
twitching and ripe for resurrection?” American Association of Physical
Anthropologists annual meeting. Buffalo, NY, April 17.
2001 “The tangled thicket of bipedalism origin hypotheses: Embarrassment of riches,
or just embarrassment?” American Anthropological Association annual
meeting. Washington, DC, December 1.
1999 “A partly habituated community of dry-habitat chimpanzees in the Semliki Valley
Wildlife Reserve, Uganda.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Columbus, OH, April 29.
1995 “A multidimensional approach to human evolution: C. Loring Brace in
retrospect.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual
meeting, Oakland CA, March 30.
1994 “Causes of variation in the australopithecine toolkit.” Society of Africanist
Archaeologists (SAfA) 12th Biennial conference, Indiana University, April 29.
1993 “Sex differences in chimpanzee foraging strategies: implications for the
australopithecine toolkit.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists
annual meeting, Toronto ON, April 15.
1991 “A test of four predictions of the influence of body size on suspensory
behavior in chimpanzees.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists
annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI, April 5.
1990 “Implications of chimpanzee positional behavior for the reconstruction of early
hominid locomotion and posture.” American Association of Physical
Anthropologists annual meeting, Miami FL, April 6.
1989 “Positional behavior in Pan troglodytes.” American Association of Physical
Anthropologists annual meeting, San Diego CA, April 6.
1984 “Dental metric assessment of the phylogenetic position of Australopithecus
africanus.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual
meeting, Philadelphia PA, April 13.
3. Invited Scholarly Lectures
2010 “The Road Not Taken: How Monkeys Outcompeted Apes and Set the Stage for Human Brain Expansion” Guest Lecture in Beverly Stoeltje’s anthropology Capstone Seminar, March 11
2009 “Divergence between Old World Monkeys and Apes: What does it mean for the human diet?” Guest Lecture in Anya Royce’s anthropology E105, Nov. 17
2008 “Chimpanzee Language,” Guest Lecture in Steve Frank’s A105 Linguistics class, October 7
2007 “Chimpanzee Language,” Guest Lecture in Steve Frank’s A105 Linguistics class, October 1
2007 “Explaining sex differences among chimpanzees in diet, positional behavior and sociality” Indiana University CISAB summer Research Experience for
Undergraduates class, Bill Timberlake, organizer, May 30
2007 “Finding food is no picnic: The effects of party size, social rank, body size, sex and reproductive status on chimpanzee activity budgets and feeding behavior,”
Guest Lecture in Gracia Clark’s anthropology Capstone Seminar, January 16
2006 “The political animal: How primates excel in cognitive tasks related to
political manipulation,” the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics
and the Life Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana, October 26
2005 “The evolution of bipedalism” Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, June 23.
2005 “Functional morphology of the chimpanzee, with a brief look at early hominins.”
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, May 17.
2005 “Sex differences in chimpanzee…and beyond.” Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, May 10.
2005 “Finding food is no picnic: the affect of social rank, body size, party size, sex, and
estrus state on activity budget and feeding behavior.” Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, May 3.
2005 “The ecological morphology of chimpanzees.” Leipzig Zoo, Leipzig Germany,
April 13
2003 “Study of dry-habitat chimpanzee behavior in Western Uganda and its
implications for human evolution..” Department of African Studies, Indiana
University, September 30.
2003 “Why do anthropologists study primates?” Guest Lecture in Scheiber class,
Indiana University, April 21
1999 “Is there a human fossil record?” Guest lecture in Biology L318, Biology
Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 23.
1997 “Discussant: Central inhibition in chimpanzees.” Kinsey Institute, Indiana
University, December 4.
1993 “Trees to tools: the evolution of the human foraging pattern.” Exploring African
Prehistory Workshop, Indiana University, May 1.
1991 “Smitten hip and thigh, spared head and chest: evolution visited on the
australopithecines.” Peabody Museum, Harvard University, March 15.
1989 “Chimpanzee feeding ecology as an analogue for the australopithecines:
arboreal bipeds?” Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Sept. 24.
1988 “Walk on the wild side: a cursory look at locomotion and lifestyle in the
chimpanzees of Mahale and Gombe, Tanzania.” Michigan Museum of
Anthropology, April 21.
4. Service and Outreach Lectures
2010 “Making sense of ‘Ardi,’ the new Ardipithecus ramidus fossils: chimpanzee, human, or both??” Mini-University, IU, June 21
2009 “Not Dead Yet: Why the Neanderthal controversy still has a pulse” Mini-University, IU, June 22
2008 “Planet of the Apes Monkeys” Mini-University, IU, June 23
2007 “Lucy’s Baby: 3.3 Million-Year-Old Skeleton of a Juvenile Australopithecine
Reveals the Course of Human Evolution?” Mini-University, IU, June 22
2007 “Did bipedalism make us human?” Science Café, Borders Bookstore, April 12
2004 “Chimpanzee anatomy and behavior,” Binford Elementary School (4th Grade),
Bloomington, IN, June 4
2003 “The stages of human evolution,” Mini-University, Indiana University, June 23
2003 “Religion and human evolution” Read Center Bible Study Group, Indiana
University, April 17
2002 “Progress at the periphery: research on chimpanzees in an extreme
environment at Semliki, Uganda.” Animal Behavior Seminar Series, Indiana
University, January 30.
2001 “Bipedalism since Darwin: Random walk, or positive progress?” CRAFT,
Indiana University, December 7.
2001 “Five primate societies,” Mini-University, IU, Bloomington, June 23
2001 “An introduction to our cousin, the chimpanzee: social behavior, language
experiments, and prospects for their continuing existence in the wild,”
Sponsored by the Center For Sustainable Living, Monroe County Public Library,
Bloomington, IN, March 3
2001 “Careers in academia” Binford Elementary School (5th Grade), Bloomington, IN,
April 12
2000 “Apes of the World,” Binford Elementary School (4th Grade), Bloomington, IN,
November 17
2000 “The stages of human evolution,” Mini-University, Indiana University, June 21
2000 “Fossil evidence for human evolution,” Continuing Studies, Indiana University,
February 3, 10 and 17.
2000 “Chimpanzees,” Childs Elementary School (3rd Grade), Bloomington, IN, Feb. 4.
1999 “Five primate societies,” Mini-University, Indiana University, Bloomington, June
25
1999 “Primate evolution” Binford Elementary School, Bloomington, IN, May 28.
1998 “Primate societies” Mini-University, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 17.
1998 “The diet of wild chimpanzees,” Collins Living Learning Center, Indiana
University, March 25.
1998 “Wild apes of Africa,” Rap with a Researcher Program, Children’s Museum of
Indianapolis, March 7.
1997 “Progress on habituation of chimpanzees at the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve,
Uganda.” Undergraduate Anthropology Society, Indiana University, Sept. 18.
1997 “The panoply of human evolution: from bipedal apes to modern humans.”
Lecture to Bloomington North High School students, May 21, 1997.
1997 “Chimpanzees in wild Africa” Rogers Elementary School, Bloomington, IN,
March 25.
1996 “Testing the predictions of the postural feeding hypothesis on chimpanzees of
the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, Uganda.” Undergraduate Anthropology
Society, Indiana University, November 12.
1996 “Academic opportunities at IU.” Red Carpet Day presentation to high school
juniors, Indiana University, November 10.
1996 “Human bipedalism as a two-step phenomenon.” Evolutionary Biology Study
Group, Indiana University, May 8.
1995 “The diverse societies of the great apes.” Harmony (High) School, Bloomington,
December 14.
1994 “Meet your ancestors: Australopithecus afarensis and Homo erectus.” Harmony
(Middle) School, Bloomington, March 8.
1994 “What apes tell us about our ancestors.” Harmony (Grammar) School,
Bloomington, March 8.
1992a “Sex differences in chimpanzee foraging strategies: implications for the
australopithecine toolkit.” CRAFT, Indiana University, February 13.
1992b “Hanging with the apes: field study and functional morphology of chimpanzees.”
Geological Sciences, Indiana University, March 4.
Teaching
1. Teaching Interests
Human paleontology, hominid and pongid functional anatomy, primate feeding
ecology, primate social behavior, anatomy, human osteology
2. Courses Developed
Human Origins and Prehistory (A105 [first taught 1991]): In discussion
groups, labs, and well-illustrated lectures the origins of features that make humans unique are investigated. Students learn what our ancestors looked like at each stage of our evolution, and why. We search for the origins of bipedalism, the reasons for our loss of body hair, and why we have large brains and rich diets. We look for the beginnings of our reliance on technology, and the roots of our current numerical success. Our fellow primates provide ecological and evolutionary examples that guide our evolutionary investigation of humans.
Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (B368/568 [1991]): Primate
societies are parsed into 5 basic systems, after which variations on these themes are investigated. Students learn that nonhuman primates vary from solitary, positively antisocial species, to animals that gather in groups of up to 300. The evolutionary and ecological bases of primate intelligence, communication, tool use, territoriality, aggression, parenting, affiliation, and sociality are detailed.
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (B200 [1992]): B200 is an
introduction to the biological study of humans. Students learn the basics of genetics, evolutionary theory, human evolution, human adaptation, and human variation. Five supervised labs give students hands-on experience with primate morphology, dental anatomy, fossil anatomy, and biological methods.
Human Paleontology (B464 [1992]): Our understanding of human
evolution is traced from classical Greek philosophy, to the modern synthesis, to socioecology. Epistemology from Plato to Popper is related to the human fossil record. Four labs allow students to examine fossil primates and fossil humans first-hand to gain an in-depth familiarity with every stage of human evolution. Ecology, subsistence strategy, and functional anatomy are emphasized.
Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (B524 [1993]):
Hypothesis testing, experimental design and evolutionary theory are examined through the primary literature. A selection of diverse and influential research articles focus discussion. Interwoven with readings are labs in which students observe, measure and then interpret hominid fossils in light of the readings. Paleoecology, species identification, molecular taxonomy and cladistics are critiqued as the meaning of human fossils is explored. Graduate students achieve a level of familiarity with hominid fossils that prepares them to teach human paleontology to undergraduates with confidence and currency.
Trees to Tools: Evolution of the Human Foraging Pattern (B400/600
[1994]): In this seminar a deeper understanding of fossil hominid cultural and intellectual evolution is sought through readings on optimal diet theory, optimal foraging theory, socioecology, human and ape food processing techniques, ape foraging strategies, ape tool use and early human technology.
SISTER SPECIES: LESSONS FROM THE CHIMPANZEE (E105 [1995]): Sister Species
is as much a survey of the natural sciences as it is a review of chimpanzee research. Chimpanzee research is merely the nexus through which students are introduced to the fields of history and philosophy of science, taxonomy, anatomy, functional morphology, kinesiology, physiology, ecology, nutrition, ethology, molecular biology, epidemiology, pathology, endocrinology, embryology, genetics, psychology, linguistics, public policy, and animal conservation.
Up from the Ape: Why Are There Humans? (B400/600 [1995]): In this
seminar students discuss hypotheses that purport to explain why and when humans evolved characteristics unique among the primates. Seminar begins with a discussion of which features define humanity. A series of lectures on human evolution follows. Students read, discuss and debate the merits of scientific articles that grapple with critical issues in human evolution.
Advanced Readings in Human Paleontology (B400/600 [1995]):
Advanced undergraduates and graduate students read and discuss the merits and meaning of up-to-the-week human evolution research. Focus is on ground-breaking works from the months and weeks – and sometimes hours – before each meeting. Students have a strong voice in the choice of weekly topics.
Primate Field OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES (A495 [1995]): Behavioral
sampling, behavioral statistics, hypothesis testing, experimental design, practical botany, primate ecology, and ecological sampling are among the topics in this methods course. Students are required to critique a sample of laudable primate behavior papers and apply what they have learned in their own project.
Primates (B466 [2001]): Primates is an upperclass/graduate level seminar meant for advanced bioanthropology undergraduate majors and graduates with research interests in primate behavior and ecology. In the course of the semester we will work our way through John Fleagle's masterful Primate Adaptation and Evolution. Among the issues Fleagle addresses are the evolution of primate feeding strategies, primate functional anatomy, the evolutionary and ecological bases of sociality, evolution of territoriality and primate phylogeny are covered in the text. Familiarity with primate taxonomy, socioecology and evolutionary theory are helpful.
Primate Behavior: THE JANE GOODALL LEGACY (B400/600 [2002]):
Primate Behavior consists of two weeks of lectures on chimpanzee behavioral research, followed by seminar discussion. Students consider the structure of chimpanzee ecology and society, the quality of relationships between chimpanzees, feeding behavior, sexual behavior, communication, language studies, association patterns, grooming relationships, mother-infant interactions, reproduction, locomotion and posture, hunting, tool use, dominance relationships, aggression, and the importance of kin relationships. Seminar discussion begins with consideration of two classic descriptions of chimpanzee behavior by Jane Goodall, In The Shadow of Man and Through a Window, followed by discussion of the Goodall’s more formal research and that of her colleagues.
The Adapted Primate Mind (A501/B400/B600 [2004]): The Adapted Primate Mind is a seminar concerned with the unusual selective pressures that have acted on the nonhuman primate mind to yield a host of unusual and complex behaviors. Some particular issues that will be discussed in the seminar are: complexity of foraging regimes, categorization and discrimination, optimal-diet decision making, tool use, quantitative abilities, communication, long-term relationship maintenance, reciprocity and exchange, theory of mind, deception, coalition formation, political maneuvering, and culture. We explore these issues through readings drawn from both a text and the primary literature, in talks given by guest speakers, and in discussions with visitors and among ourselves. Principal readings come from Tomasello and Call’s Primate Cognition, supplemented by primary literature where appropriate.
How We Got HerE: A Look at Chimpanzees, Darwin and Other Clues to Understanding the Evolved Human (College S105 [2005]): The human body is a marvelous machine: it is capable of remarkable feats of endurance; it houses a brain capable of supercomputer-like intellectual calculations; and it is remarkably sturdy, resilient and durable. In many ways, the body maintains itself almost without our noticing. It fights off disease, turns food into energy, repairs itself, and accommodates to an extraordinary range of temperatures. Some of these capabilities are unusual—if not unique—in the animal world, others are unremarkable and performed every bit as competently by other animals, and still other human capacities, such as night vision, muscular power, bone strength, acuity of smell, and reproductive output seem positively stunted compared to other animals. In this class we consider how humans came to exist by looking at what humans are, how and why they came to be, how they are similar to and different from other animals, and how our evolutionary past influences our lives today.
3. Teaching History, Instructor
10-11 Spr. B400/600 Miocene Apes (Jr-Sr/Gr) (10 students)
Spr. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (120 students)
10-11 Fall B466 The Primates (Jr-Sr/Gr) (10 students)
09-10 Spr. B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Grad) (10 students)
Fall B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (36 students)
Fall B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (19 students)
08-09 Spr. B466 The Primates (Jr-Sr/Gr) (23 students)
Fall E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (87 students)
07-08 Sum E105 The Evolved Human (IFS) (Fr) (13 students)
Spr. B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (19 students)
B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Grad) (7 students)
Fall B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (25 students)
06-07 Sum E105 The Evolved Human (IFS) (Fr) (9 students)
Guest Lecturer (six lectures) in “Primate
Behavior and Conservation Field School
in Costa Rica” (Jr-Sr) (21 students)
Spr. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (125 students)
B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (65 students)
Fall B400/600 Chimpanzee Behavior: The Goodall Legacy (Jr-Sr/Gr) (24 students)
B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (115 students)
05-06 Sum E105 The Evolved Human (IFS) (Fr) (11 students)
Spr. B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (19 students)
B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Grad) (7 students)
Fall B400/600 Current Readings in Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (9 students)
B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (37 students)
04-05 Spr. Sabbatical
Fall B400/600 The Adapted Primate Mind (Jr-Sr/Gr) (16 students)
B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (93 students)
03-04 Sum. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (21 students)
Spr. B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (28 students)
B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Soph) (11 students)
Fall B400/600 Chimpanzee Behavior: The Goodall Legacy (Jr-Sr/Gr) (27 students)
B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (92 students)
02-03 Sum. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (30 students)
Spr. B400/600 Chimpanzee Behavior: The Goodall Legacy (Jr-Sr/Gr) (26 students)
B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (107 students)
Fall B400/600 Current Readings in Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (7 students)
B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (54 student
01-02 Spr. A105 Human Origins and Prehistory (Fr) (217 students)
B466 The Primates (Jr-Sr/Gr) (20 students)
Fall E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (120 students)
B400/600 Advanced Readings in Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (9 students)
00-01 Sum. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (30 students)
Spr. B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Gr) (5 students)
B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (35 students)
Fall B400/600 Advanced Readings in Primatology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (7 students)
B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (149 students)
99-00 Spr. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (108 students)
B400/600 Advanced Readings in Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (11 students)
Fall Undergraduate Advising Teaching Release
98-99 Spr. B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Gr) (4 students)
S511 Current Issues in Paleoanthropology (Gr) (7 students)
B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (33 students)
A105 Human Origins and Prehistory (Fr) (208 students)
Fall B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (90 students)
B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (65 students)
97-98 Spr. Sabbatical
Fall E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (120 students)
B400/600 Advanced Readings in Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (11 students)
96-97 Spr. B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Gr) (5 students)
B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (18 students)
Fall E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (104 students)
B400/600 Advanced Readings in Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (9 students)
A495 Readings in Primatology (6 hrs credit) (Jr-Sr) (1 student)
A495 Readings in Paleoanthropology (1 hr credit) (Gr) (5 students)
95-96 Sum. B368 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr) (13 students)
Spr. A105 Human Origins and Prehistory (Fr) (130 students)
B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (74 students)
A495 Readings in Paleoanthropology (Gr) (3 students)
A495 Independent Study (Jr-Sr) (2 students)
Fall B400/600 Up from the Ape: Why Are There Humans? (Jr-Sr/Gr) (25 students)
B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (26 students)
A495 Readings in Paleoanthropology (Gr) (4 students)
94-95 Sum. B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (28 students)
Spr. E105 Sister Species: Lessons from the Chimpanzee (Fr) (113 students)
B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Gr) (8 students)
Fall A105 Human Origins and Prehistory (Fr) (309 students)
B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (49 students)
93-94 Spr. B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (20 students)
B400/600 Trees to Tools: Evolution of Human Foraging (Jr-Sr/Gr) (9 students)
A495 Independent study (Jr-Sr/Gr) (3 students)
Fall B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (86 students)
B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology (Gr) (3 students)
92-93 Sum. B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (19 students)
Spr. B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (38 students)
B400/600 Seminar: Origin of the Australopithecinae (Jr-Sr/Gr) (10 students)
A495 Independent study (Jr-Sr/Gr) (3 students)
Fall Research Leave
91-92 Spr. B464 Human Paleontology (Jr-Sr/Gr) (24 students)
B200 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Soph) (72 students)
A495 Independent study (Jr-Sr/Gr) (2 students)
Fall B368/568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (Jr-Sr/Gr) (16 students)
A105 Human Origins and Prehistory (Fr) (108 students)
Total ~4,300 students
Graduate Student Supervision
1. Doctoral Dissertations Supervised
1991 – 1998 Eric A. Worch, Play in Four Species of East African Monkeys: Implications
for Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Indiana University.
1994 – 2002 Kristian J. Carlson, Shape and material properties of African pongid femora and humeri: their relationship to observed positional behaviors. Indiana University.
1996 – 2007 Julienne N. Rutherford. Litter size effects on placental structure and function in common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus): Implications for intrauterine resource allocation strategies. Indiana University.
2. Current Doctoral Supervision
1996 – Shawn D. Hurst
1998 – Kimberly Dingess
2003 – Gilbert Ramos
2006 David R. Samson
2007 Blaire Hensley-Marschand (Cochair w/ David Polly)
2009 Alicia M. Rich
3. Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member
1992 – 1996 Scott L. Kight, Maternal Behavior in the Burrower Bug, Sehirus cintus
(Heteroptera: Cydnidae): Integrating Physiology, Ecology and Organism.
Indiana University
1994 – 1996 Mohamed Sahnouni, Archaeological Investigations at the Lower Palaeolithic
Site of Ain Hanech, Algeria, and Their Behavioral Implication. Indiana
University
1997 – 2001 Lorena M. Havill, Osteon Remodeling: The Impact of Maternal Lineage and
Interactions among Various Influential Factors. Indiana University
1997 – 2003 Dietrich W. Stout, Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Thinking:
Cultural, Biological and Archaeological Elements in an Anthropology of Human
Origins. Indiana University
2000 – 2006 Jason Heaton, Taxonomy of the Sterkfontein Fossil Cercopithecinae: The
Papionini of Members 2 and 4 (Gauteng, South Africa)
2001 – 2007 Charles Egeland, Zooarcheology and Taphonomic Perspectives on Hominid
and Carnivore Interactions at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Indiana University
2006 – 2008 Alison French Doubleday, LRP5 Polymorphisms and Bone Mineral Density in
the Baboon (Papio hamadryas anubis/cynocephalus). Indiana University
1998 – 2008 Leslie Harlacker. The Biomechanics of Stone Toolmaking: Kinematic and
Kinetic Perspectives on Oldowan Lithic Technology. Indiana University.
4. Current Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member
2007 August Costa
2007 Lisa Becker
2007 Laurah Turner
2007 Cari Lewis
5. Masters Degrees Supervised
2000 – 2003 Cynthia Cordero.
2001 – 2008 Heather L. Hansen
Undergraduate Student Supervision
1. B.A. Honors Thesis Chair
1991 – 1992 Evan A. Ronneau, The Evolution of Human Bipedality. Indiana University
1999 – 2002 Jessica Ash, An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Paleoclimatic
Variation and Cranial Capacity Increases in the Genus Homo. Indiana
University
2002 – 2003 Matthew Nowak, Proximal and Subtalar Ankle Joint Complexes in the
Hominoidea . Indiana University
2. B.A. Honors Thesis Committee Member
1991 Richard S. Kassissieh, The Homoplastic Human Face. Harvard University
1991 David. S. Strait, Comprehensive Dental Sexing of Australopithecus afarensis
Fossils. Harvard University
1994 – 1995 Robin A. Moser, Trauma in the Middle Woodland Period: Sex and status at
Pete Klunk and Gibson Mound sites” (defended September, 1995)
3. B.A. Individualized Major Program
2008 – 2010 Individualized Major Program Adviser, Margaret Hirschauer, “Mammalian
Social Behavior
Symposium Organized
1995 “Evolution, History, and Biological Anthropology. A symposium in honor of
C. Loring Brace” (with Lucia Allen Yaroch). Sixty-fourth annual meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Professional Societies
1979 – Sigma Xi
1981 – American Association of Physical Anthropologists
1991 – International Primatological Society
1992 – American Society of Primatologists
1993 – American Association for the Advancement of Science
1998 – American Association of University Professors
Service
1. Department
1991 – 1993 Salary Committee (P. Girshick, Chair)
1991 – 1993 Equipment and Funding Committee (E. Moran, Chair)
1993 – 1995 Salary Committee (C. Greenhouse, Chair)
1994 – 1995 Long Range Planning Committee (K.D. Vitelli, Chair)
1994 – 1995 Executive Committee (G. Conrad, Chair)
1994 – 1999 Equipment and Funding Committee (Chair)
1995 – 1996 Undergraduate Affairs Committee (R. Meier, Chair)
1995 – 1999 Biological Anthropology Undergraduate Advisor
1996 – 1997 Graduate Awards Committee (R. DeMallie, Chair)
1996 – 1998 Undergraduate Affairs Committee
1998 Acting Graduate Advisor (Fall Semester only)
1999 – 2001 Undergraduate Affairs Committee (Chair)
1999 – 2001 Undergraduate Advisor
2000 – 2001 Curriculum Review Committee
2001 – 2003 Graduate Admissions & Awards Committee
1993 – 2003 Department Webmaster
2000 – 2004 Executive Committee
2002 – 2006 Steering Committee, Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
1995 – present Director, Human Origins and Primate Evolution Laboratory
2005 (Fall) Acting Director of Graduate Studies
2005-2006 Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee
2006 (Fall) Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology
2006 Chair, Search Committee, Global Health position (Michael Muehlenbein hired)
2006-2007 Chair, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee
2006-2008 Chair, Human Biology Human Origins Concentration Curriculum Committee
2007-2008 Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee
2007-2008 Graduate Admissions & Awards Committee
2007-2008 Director of Graduate Studies
2007 Chair, Search Committee, Stone Age Institute Paleoneurology position (P. Thomas Schoenemann hired)
2008-2009 Chair, P.T. Schoenemann Tenure Committee
2008-2009 Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology
2009-2011 Director of Graduate Studies
2009-2011 Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee
2009-2010 Chair, Frederika Kaestle Tenure Committee
2007 Chair, Search Committee, Anthroplogy faculty member and Director of First Nations Education and Culture Center, (Brian Gilley hired)
2. College
2002 – 2005 College Policy Committee
2003 – 2004 College Policy Committee (Chair)
2009-2010 Chair, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center Director (Brian Gilley hired)
3. University
1994 Summer Faculty Fellowship Committee (A. Carmichael, Chair)
1996 Media Production’s Instructional Media Development Grants Award
Committee (R. Zuzolo, Chair)
1999 Exploring Majors Undergraduate Expo
2000 Judge, IU STARS Undergraduate Research Program
2000 – 2002 BFC External Relations Committee (Joe Miller, Chair)
2000 – 2002 BFC Foundation Relations Committee (Rex Stockton, Chair)
2000 – 2002 Bloomington Faculty Council (BFC)
2002 Chancellor's Fellowship Award Selection Committee (Michael McGerr, Chair)
2002 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Selection Committee (Matthew Christ,
Chair)
2002 – 2003 BFC Faculty Affairs Committee (Ahijit Basu, Chair)
2002 – 2004 Sabbatical Leaves Committee (Susan Eklund, Geoff Conrad, Chairs)
2003 Chair of Dean of Faculties Office Campus Review Board, April 28
2003 – 2004 American Association of University Professor, Executive Committee
2003 – 2005 Bloomington Faculty Council
2003 – 2005 BFC Faculty Affairs Committee (Ted Miller, Chair)
2003 – 2005 UFC Faculty Affairs Committee (Ted Miller, Chair)
2005 – 2006 BFC Agenda Committee
2003 – 2005 American Association of University Professors, Executive Committee
2006 – 2007 BFC Agenda Committee
2007 – 2008 Co-Chair, BFC Faculty Affairs Committee (with Ted Miller, fellow co-chair)
2007 – 2008 BFC Faculty Affairs Committee (Lloyd Kolbe, Chair)
2007 – 2008 UFC Faculty Affairs Committee (Lloyd Kolbe, Chair)
2007 – 2008 BFC Agenda Committee
2007 – 2008 UFC Agenda Committee
2007 – 2008 BFC Budgetary Affairs Committee
2007 – 2008 General Education Committee
2005 – 2008 President, American Association of University Professors, Bloomington Chapter
2008 Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology, OVPR Review Committee
2008 – 2009 Search Committee, Vice President for Faculty and Academic Affairs
2009 – 2011 Graduate Faculty Council
4. Other Service
1994 Organizing committee (K.D. Schick, N. Toth, co-chairs), Biannual Society of
African Archaeologists Biannual National Meeting
1998 McNair Scholar Faculty Mentor (supervised Jessica F. Cantlon)
2004 McNair Scholar Faculty Mentor (supervised David Samson)
1999 – 2004 Treasurer, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Bloomington Chapter
1992 – present Sigma Xi membership committee
2007 – 2008 President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Honor Society, Bloomington Chapter
2008 – 2008 Cox Scholar Mentor, Aaron Ryan
5. Professional Refereeing
Journal reviews American Anthropologist, American Journal of Primatology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History Novitates, Animal Behaviour, Current Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Folia Primatologica, International Journal of Primatology, Journal of Human Evolution, Paleoanthropology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.
Book manuscripts
Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Norton, Prentice-Hall, Princeton University Press.
Grant, Fellowship
LSB Leakey Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation,
reviewing Natural Environment Research Council, National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Primate Conservation Incorporated.
6. Editorship
2009 – Editorial Advisory Board, Politics and Life Sciences
Media appearances
1993 BBC Horizons. “Some Liked It Hot.” Discussed the evolutionary origin of
human bipedalism.
2000 “Human ancestors” Discussion of chimpanzees and fossil hominids on children's
public television show, "Friday Zone", WTIU Public Television Station,
Bloomington, IN, April 21.
2010 “Dry Habitat Chimpanzees” National Geographic
