Dean Falk
Dean Falk (born June 25, 1944 ) is an American anthropologist specializing in the development of the brain and perception in primates . Falk teaches anthropology at Florida State University .
After the discovery of skeletal parts of an approx. 17,000 year old human on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, these finds were referred to as a new species of hominini , Homo floresiensis . Falk supported this determination in 2005. In 2007 she demonstrated by casts of the inside of the skull of the fossil LB1 that Homo floresiensis is probably a close relative of Homo erectus and not an example of microcephaly in modern humans ( Homo sapiens ).
In 2000 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Works (selection)
- External Neuroanatomy of Old World Monkeys (Cercophitecoidae). In: Contributions to Primatology. vol 15, pp. 1-95, 1978, Karger, Basel
- with Este Armstrong as editor: Primate Brain Evolution: Methods and Concepts. Plenum Publishing Co., New York 1982, ISBN 0-306-40914-3 .
- Evolution of the Brain and Cognition in Hominids. The sixty-second James Arthur Lecture. American Museum of Natural History , New York 1992.
- Braindance or why chimpanzees cannot step: the evolution of the human brain. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-7643-2926-2 .
- Braindance Revised and Extended . University Press of Florida, 2004.
- J. Keenan in collaboration with G. Gallup and Dean Falk: The Face in the Mirror: In Search of the Origin of Consciousness. E. Reinhardt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-497-01781-7 .
- How humanity found language. Mothers, Children and the Origin of Speech. from the English by Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-421-04327-6 .
- The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley / London 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-26670-4 . (Hardback)
Web links
Commons : Dean Falk - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Dean Falk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Dean Falk at perlentaucher.de
- Scientist profile from Florida State University
- The price of intelligence. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from November 18, 2017
supporting documents
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Falk, Dean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1944 |