Tracy L. Kivell, Visiting Assistant Professor

Hominoid evolution Developmental and functional morphology Origin of hominin bipedalism

Please note: Tracy has left the "Evolutionary Anthropology" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	202 Biological Sciences Building
Office Phone:	919-684-6582
Email Address:

Typical Courses Taught:

• MS1, Human Gross Anatomy

• MS, Oncoanatomy Education, Dept. of Radiation Oncology

• EVANTH 193, RESEARCH INDEPENDENT STUDY Synopsis

Office Hours:

By appointment

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Toronto	2007
MA	University of Toronto	2002
Hon. B.Sc.	University of Western Ontario/University of Toronto	2001

Research Interests: Primate functional morphology, palaeontology and biomechanics, developmental morphology

functional morphology of the human and non-human primate postcranium, hominin and hominoid palaeontology, ontogeny, origin of hominin bipedalism, biomechanics of knuckle-walking in African apes, phylogenetic systematics

Keywords:

Hominoid evolution • developmental and functional morphology of postcranial skeleton • origin of hominin bipedalism

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Kivell TL and Schmitt D, Evidence of independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor, PNAS (PNAS (in press))
2. Kivell,TL and Begun DR, New primate carpal bones from Rudabanya (late Miocene, Hungary): Taxonomic and functional implications (Journal of Human Evolution (in press))
3. Begun DR and Kivell TL, Knuckle-walking in Sivapithecus: the combined effects of homology and homoplasy and its implications for the origin of human bipedalism, Journal of Human Evolution (Journal of Human Evolution (in review))
4. Kivell TL, Doyle SK, Madden RH, Mitchell, TL, Sims, EL, An interactive method for teaching anatomy of the eye to medical students during ophthalmology clinical rotations, Anatomical Sciences Education (Anatomical Sciences Education (in press))
5. Kivell TL, Begun DR. 2007, Frequency and timing of scaphoid-os centrale fusion in hominoids, Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 52 (Journal of Human Evolution 52:321-340) [PDF]
6. McGoogan K, Kivell TL, Hutchinson M, Young H, Blanchard S, Lehman SM. 2007, Conservation priorities for African primates using phylogenetic diversity measures, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 34 no. 11 (Journal of Biogeography, 34(11):1962-74) [PDF]