Joshua Polanski

Background:

Josh is currently working on projects involving morphological integration of the cranium during growth of living humans and chimpanzees. Additionally, he is also researching morphological integration during growth of the human mandible, both by itself, and its relationships with the rest of the skull. He is also collaborating on a project investigating the evolution of knuckle-walking, and the possibility that it represents the locomotor pattern of our lineage just prior to the advent of bipedalism, and a separate project which involves the initial description and analysis of a fossil maxilla from Java. He is currently in the process of finishing his dissertation, with plans to defend in Spring 2007.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences