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Matt Cartmill

Matt Cartmill, Professor, Biological Anthropology & Anatomy

Contact Info:
260 Sands Bldg
+1 919 684 2971
mont3007@duke.edu
Education:
  • Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1970
  • M.A., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1966
  • B.A., Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1964

Teaching (Summer2 2008):

  • BAA 93.01, Intro Biological Anthro
    Bio sci 113, MTuWThF 12:30 PM-01:45 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Cartmill, M.. "New views on primate origins."  1992: 105-111.
  2. Cartmill, M.. A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History. Harvard University Press, Cambridge; xiv, 331 pp, 1993a.
  3. Cartmill, M.. "A critique of homology as a morphological concept."  1994: 115-123.
  4. Cartmill, M.. "Oppressed by evolution." Discover (March, 1998): 78-83. (Excerpted in Duke Magazine (July-August, 2000), p. 5. Reprinted in L. Polnac (ed.), Purpose, Pattern, and Process, Kendall-Hunt Publ. Co., Dubuque, 5th edition (1999); 6th edition, 2002, pp. 389-397.)
  5. Cartmill, M.. "The status of the race concept in physical anthropology."  1999: 651-660.
  6. Cartmill, M.. "Understanding the evil that men do." Chronicle of Higher Education 2 (June, 2000): B4-B6.
  7. Cartmill, M.. "Animal consciousness: some philosophical, methodological, and evolutionary problems."  2000: 835-846.
  8. Cartmill, M.. "A view on the science: physical anthropology at the millennium." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113 (2000): 145-149.
  9. Cartmill, M.. "The probability of human origins." When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It. Ed. Matthews, C. N., Tucker, M. E., and Hefner, P. Open Court, Chicago, 2001: 73-97.