Scott Maddux
Background:
I am a doctoral candidate in the paleoanthropology concentration at the University of Iowa. I received my BA at Texas A&M University in 2003, and my MA from the University of Iowa in 2006. My research focuses primarily on craniofacial evolution within the genus Homo during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. My dissertation research explores the evolutionary significance of the infraorbital region, and its utility in determining phylogenetic relationships in the hominin fossil record. I am also collaborating with fellow UI researchers on experimental research employing suture fixation in Sus scrofa to model evolutionary changes in human infraorbital morphology, and additionally, working on an osteological description of a previously unidentified hypochondroplastic dwarf skeleton, and an allometric re-examination of the reported 128,000 year old H. sapiens premolar (PU-198) from East Java, Indonesia.
Publications and Presentations:
2009 Maddux, S.D. & R.G. Franciscus. “Allometric scaling of
infraorbital surface topography in Homo: Size does
matter.” Abstracts of the Annual Paleoanthropology Society
Meeting.
2009 Maddux, S.D. & R.G. Franciscus. “Allometric scaling of
infraorbital surface topography in Homo.” Journal of
Human Evolution. 56:161-174.
2008 Franciscus, R.G., N.E. Holton, M.A. Nieves, T.E. Southard, S.B. Reimer, S.D. Marshal, K.E. Krizan,
S.D. Maddux. “Experimental facial growth alteration in Sus scrofa and its implications for the
evolution of modern human craniofacial anatomy.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
46S:98-99.
2007 Ciochon, R.L. & S.D. Maddux. Review of “The First Boat People” by Steve Webb. American
Anthropologist. 109:318.
2007 R.G. Franciscus, N.E. Holton, S.D. Maddux, H.E. Marsh, R.L. Ciochon. “Temporal and geographical
patterning of mandibular corpus dimensions in Homo using Mantel tests.” American Journal of
Physical Anthropology. 44S:110.
2006 Maddux, S.D. & R.G. Franciscus. “Qualitative and quantitative assessment of infraorbital surface
topography in recent and fossil Homo”. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 42S:123.
