Dartmouth Alumna Collaborates with Dartmouth Grad Student on Newly Published Anthropology Paper

Dartmouth alumna, Anjali M Prabhat and EEES PhD candidate, Kate Miller are lead authors of a newly published anthropology paper titled, "Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis." In their study, Prabhat and Miller note that the evolution of bipedalism and reduced reliance on arboreality in hominins resulted in larger lower limb joints relative to the joints of the upper limb. The pattern and timing of this transition, however, remains unresolved. Read the full paper here.

Note: Anthropology professor, Jeremy DeSilva was also a co-author on the paper, as well as others from academic institutions in Texas and New York.

(eLife 2021;10:e65897 doi: 10.7554/eLife.65897)