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William L Jungers
Summary
B.A. in Anthropology from Oberlin College (1970), Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Biological Anthropology (1976). Faculty member at Stony Brook University School of Medicine since 1978. My research interests focus on the evolutionary and functional anatomy of primates and paleoanthropology, with a special interest in "size and scaling" and quantitative methods. I've also conducted paleontological field work in Madagascar and Indonesia.
Work details
Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chairman
Academic Editor on
Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees
Human feeding biomechanics: performance, variation, and functional constraints
The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa
First steps of bipedality in hominids: evidence from the atelid and proconsulid pelvis