Russell L. Ciochon

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Russell Lynn Ciochon (born March 11, 1948 in Altadena , California ) is an American paleoanthropologist and primatologist . On the one hand, he is researching the colonization of Southeast Asia by Homo erectus around 1.6 million years ago, and on the other hand, the evolution of the anatomical features - especially the teeth - of ancient human-like fossils from the epochs between the Eocene and Pleistocene . Russell L. Ciochon is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa .

research

Russell L. Ciochon received his bachelor's degree in 1971 and his master's degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 . 1986 followed in Berkeley , also in the field of anthropology, the doctor degree ( Ph.D. ). His dissertation was entitled The cercopithecoid forelimb: Anatomical implications for the evolution of African Plio-Plelstocene species . From 1978 to 1981 he was a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte . This was followed by stays as a research assistant at Berkeley (1982 to 1985) and at Stony Brook University in New York (1985/86) and at the University of Arizona in Tucson (1987). He has been teaching and researching at the University of Iowa in Iowa City since 1987 , initially as an assistant professor and since 1996 as a professor. He has also been a professor in the Pediatric Dentistry Department at the University of Iowa Dental Clinic since 1996 . In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

As early as the mid-1970s, Ciochon in Myanmar (then: Burma) was repeatedly engaged in field research to reconstruct the tribal history of Eocene and Miocene monkeys . At the same time he dealt with comparative anatomical studies on the ancestors of the genus Homo . For decades, special attention was paid to the connection between food intake and anatomical adaptations of the genus Gigantopithecus .

Between 2008 and 2010, 80 years after their discovery, Russell L. Ciochon led another excavation at the site of the Homo erectus fossils known as Homo soloensis in the east of Java Island in the river terrace of the Solo .

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Books
  • with A. Brunetto Chiarelli (Ed.): Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift. Springer, Boston, MA, 1980, ISBN 978-1-4684-3766-9
  • as editor: New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry. Springer Science + Business Media, New York 1983, ISBN 978-1-4684-8856-2
  • with John G. Fleagle (Ed.): Primate Evolution and Human Origins. Aldine de Gruyter, New York 1987, ISBN 0-202-01175-5
  • with John Olsen and Jamie James: Why did Giganto have to die? In search of the giant monkey from prehistoric times. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-07-509600-8 .
  • with Richard A. Nisbett: The Primate Anthology. Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History. Pearson, 1997, ISBN 978-0136138457
  • with John G. Fleagle: The Human Evolution Source Book. 2nd Edition. Routledge, 2003, ISBN 978-0130329813
  • with Noel T. Boaz: Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus. Oxford University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-19-515291-3
  • with Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore and Wenda Trevathan: Introduction to Physical Anthropology. 14th edition. Wadsworth Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1285062037
Technical article
  • with Jamie James: The Power of Pagan. In: Archeology. Volume 45, No. 5, 1992, pp. 34-41, JSTOR 41766158
  • Russell L. Ciochon et al .: Dated co-occurrence of Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus from Tham Khuyen Cave, Vietnam. In: PNAS . Volume 93, No. 7, 1996, pp. 3016–3020, full text (PDF)
  • with E. Arthur Bettis III: Asian Homo erectus converges in time. In: Nature . Volume 458, 2009, pp. 153-154, doi: 10.1038 / 458153a
  • The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia. In: Nature. Volume 459, 2009, pp. 910-911, doi: 10.1038 / 459910a
  • with Jason J. Head, Gregg F. Gunnell, Patricia A. Holroyd and J. Howard Hutchison: Giant lizards occupied herbivorous mammalian ecospace during the Paleogene greenhouse in Southeast Asia. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Volume 280, No. 1763, 2013, 20130665, doi: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.0665

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ AAAS: Elected Fellows in 2005.
  2. ↑ Ba Maw, Russell L. Ciochon and Donald E. Savage: Late Eocene of Burma yields earliest anthropoid primate, Pondaungia cotteri. In: Nature . Volume 282, 1979, pp. 65-67, doi: 10.1038 / 282065a0
  3. ^ Francis Clark Howell , Sherwood L. Washburn, and Russell L. Ciochon: Relationship of Australopithecus and Homo. In: Journal of Human Evolution . Volume 7, No. 2, 1978, pp. 127-131, doi: 10.1016 / S0047-2484 (78) 80004-9
  4. ^ Russell L. Ciochon: Gigantopithecus: The King of All Apes. In: Animal Kingdom. Volume 91, No. 2, 1988, pp. 32-39
  5. ↑ RL Ciochon, DR Piperno and RG Thompson: Opal phytoliths found on the teeth of the extinct ape Gigantopithecus blacki: implications for paleodietary studies. In: PNAS . Volume 87, No. 20, 1990, pp. 8120-8124, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.87.20.8120
  6. ^ Notes from an excavation. Russell L. Ciochon and his team are in Indonesia investigating the geological source and age of one of the world's biggest caches of Homo erectus. On: nature.com of July 28, 2010
    Wenner-Gren Foundation about research on the Solo River. On: Wennergren.org , 2009
personal data
SURNAME Ciochon, Russell L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ciochon, Russell; Ciochon, Russell Lynn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Altadena , California