Robert Anemone
Professor
Office: (269)
387-4133
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Location
1024 Moore Hall
Mailing address
Department of Anthropology
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5306
Education
Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Washington, 1988
Research interests
Vertebrate paleontology, Eocene primates and mammals of the Western US, primate and human evolution, functional morphology, primate locomotion, anatomy, growth and development, primate life history, race and human diversity
Regional focus: Western North America, Wyoming, Africa
Bio: Robert Anemone is a biological anthropologist with research interests in functional morphology, life history, and vertebrate paleontology of the primates. His dissertation work was a functional analysis of the hindlimb skeleton of prosimian primates, with an emphasis on understanding the musculo-skeletal morphology of vertical clinging and leaping primates. He worked with the late Elizabeth Watts of Tulane University on chimpanzee dental development and the evolution of life history among hominids. Currently he collaborates with Wendy Dirks of Newcastle University on the reconstruction of life history in Eocene mammals based on the analysis of incremental lines in fossil dental enamel. Since 1994 he has been engaged in vertebrate paleontology fieldwork in Paleocene and Eocene deposits of the Great Divide Basin in southwestern Wyoming. One of the major research foci of the Great Divide Basin Research Project is on the effects of climate change on the evolution of primates and other mammals at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, some 55 million years ago. Dr. Anemone recently published a book entitled “Race and Human Diversity: A Bio-Cultural Approach” (2010).
