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 (Fall 2019):  (typical courses)

• EVANTH 585.01, BAYESIAN MODEL FITTING Synopsis

  Physics 227, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

State University of New York at 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. Harrington, AR; Kuzawa, CW; Boyer, DM, Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 169 no. 1 (May, 2019), pp. 161-169 [doi]  [abs]
2. Shan, S; Kovalsky, SZ; Winchester, JM; Boyer, DM; Daubechies, I, ariaDNE: A robustly implemented algorithm for Dirichlet energy of the normal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10 no. 4 (April, 2019), pp. 541-552 [doi]  [abs]
3. Boyer, DM; Harrington, AR, New estimates of blood flow rates in the vertebral artery of euarchontans and their implications for encephalic blood flow scaling: A response to Seymour and Snelling (2018)., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 128 (March, 2019), pp. 93-98 [doi]
4. Morse, PE; Chester, SGB; Boyer, DM; Smith, T; Smith, R; Gigase, P; Bloch, JI, New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 128 (March, 2019), pp. 103-131 [doi]  [abs]
5. Boyer, DM; Maiolino, SA; Holroyd, PA; Morse, PE; Bloch, JI, Oldest evidence for grooming claws in euprimates., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 122 (September, 2018), pp. 1-22 [doi]  [abs]