Claire A. Kirchhoff

I am a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where I also took my BA (2003). My research interests are in the skeletal biology of great apes (including humans), anatomy, and the evolution of the human developmental pattern.

CURRENT PROJECT

My dissertation project explores the skeletal and dental development of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the closest living relative to modern humans.  Most developmental studies on chimpanzees, including nearly all of the studies examining hard tissue, have involved only captive individuals, who mature faster and reach greater ultimate sizes than their wild, free-ranging counterparts.  My aim with this project is to attain a better understanding of the differences between wild and captive chimpanzee development.  Since chimpanzee maturation standards are often used when examining the ontogeny of fossil hominins, it is necessary to assess the validity of our comparative data sets.  The Dissertation also examines differences in human ontogeny between recent, industrail populations and prehistoric foragers.

Email: kirc0021@umn.edu

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-U of M Anthropology Department -U of M Evolutionary Anthropology Labs -U of M Anthropology Club -American Association of University Professors -American Association of Physical Anthropologists -Paleoanthropological Society COLLEAGUES: -Sabrina Curran -Ellery Frahm -Matt Hunstiger -Ali Moyer

CURRENT FEATURES

-Dissertation pilot study -Dead Baby Chimps: How Did They Get Dead?

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OLD FEATURES

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-An example of a faunal project: The Hallsted Site -Maize Phytolith Project -Microscopic Analysis of Archaeological Wood

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