AAPA 2012 Professional Development Awards

Sharon DeWitte (U. South Carolina)

Paleoepidemiology of historic plague epidemics: the dynamics of an ancient emerging disease

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James London (U. Colorado-Boulder)

New directions in early South African hominin dietary ecology

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Biren Patel (Stony Brook University)

Primate evolution and biogeography in the Lower Siwaliks of India

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Varsha Pilbrow (U. Melbourne)

The physical anthropology of the 2200 BC – 600 AD humans from Samtavro in the Caucasus region of Georgia

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Claire Terhune (Duke U. Med School)

Were Neanderthals biting off more than they could chew? Evidence from the temporomandibular joint of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins

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Cynthia Thompson (Northeast Ohio Medical U)

Development of non-invasive methods for studying the hormonal regulation of feeding behavior in wild primates