• Ph.D. at Yale University

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What lies beneath Imaging technology ignites career of anthropologist, anatomist Nov. 9, 2007 -- Glenn Conroy and Jane Phillips-Conroy with their awards for outstanding teaching His modest demeanor provides little hint of neither his brilliant career nor the ivy-paved path that serendipitously led him to Washington University in St. Louis more than 20 years ago. A renowned anthropologist, Glenn Conroy, Ph.D., has been gathering valuable fossil remains of humans and non-human primates for more than 30 years. Some of his best work is on display through January in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center (See it now).

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Work in my laboratory is focused upon the analysis of paleontological evidence for primate evolution, particularly over the past 15 million years of earth history. Of particular interest is the time period between 15-5 mya, the temporal framework within which humans and African apes diverged. In conjunction with the medical imaging laboratory at Washington University's Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, we are currently applying state-of-the-art computer imaging techniques to investigate anatomical structures in both extinct and extant primates and fossil hominids. These techniques allow us to create 2- and 3-dimensional images and to electronically "dissect" fossils. At present, we are using CT to investigate craniodental morphology and patterns of growth and maturation in South African australopithecines. In addition, I am currently involved in a multidisciplinary paleoanthropological field project at Makapansgat, South Africa. Our previous fieldwork in Namibia discovered the first Miocene hominoid ever found in sub-equatorial Africa and one of the most extensive middle Miocene faunas from Africa

I am currently working with students in primate paleontology and growth and development of early hominids. My courses include human anatomy and primate evolution.

Courses

Principles of Human Anatomy and Development, Comparative Primate Anatomy, The Evolution of Non-Human Primates, Evolutionary Human Anatomy

Selected Publications

Conroy, G.C.

1990 Primate Evolution. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

1997 Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

Conroy, G.C., Pickford, M., Senut, B., Van Couvering, J., Mein, P.

1992 Otavipithecus namibiensis, first Miocene hominoid from Southern Africa (Berg Aukas, Namibia). Nature. 356:144-148.

Conroy, G.C. and Kuykendall, K.

1995 Paleopediatrics: or when did human infants really become human? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98:121-131.

Conroy, G.C., Weber, G., Seidler, H., Tobias, P.V., Kane, A., Brunsden, B.

1998 Endocranial capacity in an early hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Science 280: 1730-1731. (cover feature)

Conroy, G.C., Rasmussen D.T., Simons E.L.

1998 Tarsier-like locomotor specializations in the Oligocene primate Afrotarsius. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 95(25):14848-14850.

(with D. Falk, J. Guyer, G. Weber, H. Seidler, W. Recheis)

2000 Endocranial capacity in Sts 71 (Australopithecus africanus). Anat. Rec. 258:391-396.

(with D. Falk, J. Guyer, J. Redmond, W. Recheis, G. Weber, H. Seidl)

2000 Early hominid brain evolution: A new look at old endocasts. J. Hum. Evol 38:695-717.

(with G. Weber, H. Seidler, W. Recheis, D. Zur Nedden, J. Mariam)

2000 Endocranial capacity of the Bodo cranium determined from three- dimensional computed tomography. American Journal Physical Anthropology