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Robert Anemone

Ph.D. 1988 University of Washington

Associate Professor Biological Anthropology 1024 Moore Hall (269) 387-4133   Web site

Research interests: Vertebrate paleontology, primate evolution, functional morphology, primate locomotion, primate & human growth and development, race and human diversity

Regional focus: Western North America, Wyoming

Selected publications: Anemone, RL, Dirks, W (2008) An anachronistic Clarkforkian fauna from the Paleocene Fort Union Formation (Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA). Geologica Acta in press.

Conroy, GC, Anemone, RL, Van Regenmorter, J, Addison, A (2008) Google Earth, GIS, and the Great Divide: A new and simple method for sharing paleontological data. Journal of Human Evolution, in press.

Anemone, RL, Nachman, BA (2003) Morphometrics, functional anatomy, and the biomechanics of locomotion among tarsiers. IN: Tarsiers: Past, Present, and Future. PC Wright, EL Simons and S Gursky, eds. pp. 97-120, Rutgers University Press.

A closer look: 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. 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 is currently working on a book entitled "Race and Human Diversity: A Bio-Cultural Exploration of Human Biological Variation", to be published by Prentice-Hall.