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Elwyn L Simons, James B. Duke Professor of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy and Head, Division of Fossil Primates

Contact Info:

DUPC Division of Fossil Primates

+1 919 416 8420, +1 919 416 8433

esimons@duke.edu

Education:

• PhD, Princeton University, 1956
• D.Sc., University College, Oxford, 1995
• M.A. (Hon.), Yale University, 1967
• D. Phil, University College, Oxford, 1959
• M.A., Princeton University, 1955
• B.S., W.M. Rice University, 1953

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Seiffert ER, Simons EL, Attia Y. "Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos." Nature 422 (2003): 421-424.
2. Simons EL. "The cranium of Parapithecus grangeri, an Egyptian Oligocene anthropoidean primate." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98 (2001): 7892-7897.
3. Simons EL, Seiffert ER, Chatrath PS, and Attia Y. "Earliest record of a parapithecid anthropoid from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, northern Egypt." Folia Primatologica 72 (2002): 316-331.
4. Seiffert ER, and Simons EL. "Astragalar morphology of Late Eocene anthropoids from the Fayum Depression (Egypt) and the origin of catarrhine primates." Journal of Human Evolution 41 (2001): 577-605.
5. Seiffert ER, Simons EL, and Fleagle JG. "Anthropoid humeri from the late Eocene of Egypt." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97 (2000): 10062-10067.
6. Simons EL, and Seiffert ER. "A partial skeleton of Proteopithecus sylviae (Primates, Anthropoidea): first associated dental and postcranial remains of an Eocene anthropoidean." Comptes Rendus De L'Academie Des Sciences Serie II Fascicule a- Sciences De La Terre Et Des Planetes 329 (1999): 921-927.
7. Simons EL, Plavcan JM, and Fleagle JG. "Canine sexual dimorphism in Egyptian Eocene anthropoid primates: Catopithecus and Proteopithecus." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 (1999): 2559-2562.
8. Simons EL. "The prosimian fauna of the fayum Eocene/Oligocene deposits of Egypt." Folia Primatologica 69 (1998): 286-294.
9. Simons EL. "Preliminary description of the cranium of Proteopithecus sylviae, an Egyptian late Eocene anthropoidean primate." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94 (1997): 14970-14975.
10. Simons EL, and Rasmussen DT. "Skull of Catopithecus browni, an early tertiary catarrhine." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 100 (1996): 261-292.
11. Wunderlich RE, Simons EL, and Jungers WL. "New pedal remains of Megaladapis and their functional significance." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 100 (1996): 115-138.