John Kappelman
Professional information
- Name
- John Kappelman, Ph.D.
- Title/position
- professor of anthropology
- Affiliations
- University of Texas at Austin
- Biography
John Kappelman grew up on a family farm in southwestern Idaho and holds a joint Ph.D. in anthropology and earth and planetary sciences from Harvard University and a B.S. in geology and geophysics from Yale University. The primary focus of his research is hominoid evolution and human origins and evolution, with particular emphasis inpaleoecology and functional morphology, and stratigraphy and paleomagnetism. He has carried out field work in many parts of African and Asian and currently conducts field projects in Ethiopia and Turkey. He is also active in CT imaging of fossils and in 2008 headed the team that completed the first high-resolution imaging of the fossil Lucy.
He is also active in producing digital educational materials that include www.eSkeletons.org, www.eLucy.org, and www.eFossils.org.- Web site address
- http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/anthropology/faculty/profiles/kappelman/john/
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