Monya Anderson

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- andersm@tamu.edu
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- Degree
- PhD, University of Oregon, 2019
- Program
- Biological Anthropology
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- She/Her/Hers
Specialty:
Paleoprimatology, Functional Morphology, Paleoecology, Comparative Anatomy, Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecidae, Primate Evolution
Current Research Projects:
Niche Separation and Functional in the Large-Bodied Fossil Colobines (Ethiopia and Kenya), Principal Investigator (2015-present)
Funding: NSF DDIG (Proposal No. 1650923)
Cercopithecidae in Biochronology of African Plio-Pleistocene hominin sites (2012 – present), Principal Investigators: Dr. Stephen Frost and Dr. Chris Gilbert
Collaborators: Dr. Eric Delson and Kelsey Pugh
Funding: Wenner-Gren Foundation, NYCEP, PSC-CUNY faculty research award program
Woranso-Mille and Middle Awash Fossil Cercopithecidae, Principal Investigator: Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Collaborator: Dr. Stephen Frost
Courses Taught:
ANTH 201 – Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 205 – Peoples & Cultures of the World
ANTH 225 – Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 226 – Introduction to Biological Anthropology Laboratory
ANTH 312: The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution
ANTH 415: Anthropological Writing
ANTH 601: Biological Anthropology
Selected and Recent Publications:
Prep Anderson M. Functional Morphology and Taxonomic Status of the Large-Bodied Colobine Fossil L895-1 from Upper Member G, Shungura Formation, Ethiopia.
Prep Frost SF, Anderson M, Reda, H, Simons EA. Fossil Cercopithecidae from the Matabaietu, Bouri, and Burka Formations, Middle Awash Valley, Afar State, Ethiopia.
2021 Arenson JL, Simons E, Anderson M, Eller A, White FJ, Frost SR. Geographic variation in cranial form of wild fascicularis-group macaques and comparison to two translocated captive populations (Primates, Cercopithecidae). Am J Bio Anthropol, 178(3), DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24505
2021 Anderson M. An assessment of the postcranial skeleton of the Paracolobus mutiwa (Primates: Colobinae) specimen KNM-WT 16827 from Lomekwi, West Turkana, Kenya. J Hum Evol 156: 103012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103012
2020 Harcourt-Smith WH, Anderson M, Fernandez A, Ting N, Frost, S, Delson E. The postcranial morphology and inferred locomotor behavior of the early Pleistocene Eurasian cercopithecine Paradolichopithecus arevenensis. Am J Bio Anthropol. 171(S69): 113.
2018 Gilbert CC, Pugh K, Anderson M, Frost SR, Delson E. Evolution of the modern baboon (Papio hamadryas): A reassessment of the African Plio-Pleistocene record. J Hum Evol 122: 38-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.012