Douglas M. Boyer, Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Biological Sciences Building
Office Phone:	(919) 668-3348
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.dougmboyer.com/

Teaching (Spring 2023):  (typical courses)

• EVANTH 333L.001, THE HUMAN BODY Synopsis

  French Sci 4233, MW 01:45 PM-03:00 PM

• EVANTH 333L.01L, THE HUMAN BODY Synopsis

  Duke Clini 0042, M 03:30 PM-04:45 PM

• EVANTH 333L.02L, THE HUMAN BODY Synopsis

  Duke Clini 0042, Tu 12:00 PM-01:15 PM

• EVANTH 333L.03L, THE HUMAN BODY Synopsis

  Duke Clini 0042, W 03:30 PM-04:45 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

State University of New York, Stony Brook

2009

Specialties:

Functional Anatomy

Keywords:

Adaptation, Biological • Africa • Algorithms • Allometry • Analysis of Variance • Animals • Anthropology, Physical • Bayes Theorem • Biological Evolution • Body Weight • Calcaneus • Carbon Isotopes • Chemostratigraphy • Diet • Fibula • Fossils • France • Hallux • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted • Imaging, Three-Dimensional • Mammals • Models, Anatomic • Molar • Paleodontology • Paleontology • Pedigree • Phylogeny • Pithecia • Primates • Reproducibility of Results • Strepsirhini • Surface Properties • Talus • Teeth • Tooth • Tooth Crown • Tooth Wear • Tupaia • Weights and Measures • X-Ray Microtomography

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Gabriel Yapuncich  

Postdocs Mentored

• Elizabeth St. Clair (2013)  
• Judit Marigo (2013)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Fulwood, EL; Shan, S; Winchester, JM; Gao, T; Kirveslahti, H; Daubechies, I; Boyer, DM, Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape, Paleobiology, vol. 47 no. 4 (November, 2021), pp. 612-631 [doi]  [abs]
2. Rolfe, S; Pieper, S; Porto, A; Diamond, K; Winchester, J; Shan, S; Kirveslahti, H; Boyer, D; Summers, A; Maga, AM, SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 12 no. 10 (October, 2021), pp. 1816-1825 [doi]  [abs]
3. Vitek, NS; Morse, PE; Boyer, DM; Strait, SG; Bloch, JI, Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Paleobiology, vol. 47 no. 3 (August, 2021), pp. 464-486 [doi]  [abs]
4. Frank, LR; Rowe, TB; Boyer, DM; Witmer, LM; Galinsky, VL, Unveiling the third dimension in morphometry with automated quantitative volumetric computations., Scientific Reports, vol. 11 no. 1 (July, 2021), pp. 14438 [doi]  [abs]
5. Boyer, DM; Schaeffer, LM; Beard, KC, New dentaries of Chiromyoides (Primatomorpha, Plesiadapidae) and a reassessment of the “mammalian woodpecker” ecological niche, Geobios, vol. 66-67 (July, 2021), pp. 77-102 [doi]  [abs]