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Student Prize Winners of the 75th Annual Meeting Congratulations to the 2006 winners!
Juan Comas Prize	Brian Kemp Department of Anthropology University of California, Davis Presentation: "Timing of the peopling of the Americas: genetic analysis of early Holocene skeletal remains" (co-authors: B.M. Kemp1, R.S. Malhi, J. McDonough, D.A.Bolnick, J.A. Eshleman, O. Rickards, C. Martinez-Labarga, J.R. Johnson, J.G. Lorenz, E.J. Dixon, T.E. Fifield, T.H. Heaton, R. Worl, and D.G. Smith)
Earnest A. Hooton Prize	Kristin Harper Department of Anthropology Emory University Presentation: "The origin of syphilis: a phylogenetic approach suggesting New World origin" (co-authors: P.S. Ocampo1, B.M., Steiner, R.W. George, M.S. Silverman, S. Bolotin, A. Pillay, G.J. Armelagos)
Ales Hrdlicka Prize	Herman Pontzer Department of Anthropology Harvard University Presentation: "The evolution of hominin locomotor performance and the emergence of Homo"
William S. Pollitzer Prize	Ömer Gökçümen Department of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania Essay:"White Soil and Cockfights: Globalizing the Local"
Mildred Trotter Prize	Jason Organ Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Presentation: "To grasp or not to grasp? Structure and function of platyrrhine caudal vertebrae"
Sherwood L. Washburn Prize	Jandy Hanna Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy Duke University "Locomotor energetics in primates: vertical compared to estimated horizontal costs"

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Student Prize Winners of the 75th Annual Meeting