Return to the Island of the Apes

Monday 14 November 2011, 12.30PM

Speaker: Prof. Kieran P. McNulty from the University of Minnesota

1Prof. Kieran P. McNulty University of Minnesota

(Leverhulme Fellow at Durham University)

  • C Tryon, JT Faith, DJ Peppe, DL Fox, KP McNulty, K Jenkins, HM Dunsworth, WEH Harcourt-Smith (in press). The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. Available online September 30, 2010.
  • KP McNulty, KL Baab (2010). Keeping Asymmetry in LB1 in Perspective: A Reply to Eckhardt and Henneberg. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 143, 337-339.
  • KP McNulty (2010). Apes and tricksters: the evolution and diversification of humans’ closest relatives. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 3, 322-332.
  • G Monnier, KP McNulty (2010). Questioning the link between stone tool standardization and behavioral modernity. In (S Lycett, P Chauhan, eds) New Perspectives on Old Stones: Analytical Approaches to Palaeolithic Technologies. New York: Springer, pp. 61-81.
  • M Singleton, KP McNulty, SR Frost, J Soderberg, EH Guthrie (2010). Bringing up baby: developmental simulation of the adult cranial morphology of Rungwecebus kipunji. The Anatomical Record, 293, 388-401.
  • KP McNulty (2009). Computing singular warps from Procrustes aligned coordinates. Journal of Human Evolution, 57, 191-194.
  • KL Baab, KP McNulty (2009). Scaling and asymmetry in fossil hominins: the status of the LB1 cranium based on 3D morphometric analyses. Journal of Human Evolution, 57, 608-622.
  • DJ Peppe, KP McNulty, S Cote, WEH Harcourt-Smith, HM Dunsworth, JA Van Couvering (2009). Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution, 56, 447-461.


Location: HYMS York second floor meeting room.

Admission: Open to all. Go to 1st floor reception at HYMS to gain entry