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Anthropologie / BRACE, C. LORING

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Position

Loring Brace retired as Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

His research addresses issues of morphological variability between human populations. His investigations focus on circumstances and dynamics involved in the development of differences in human skeletal and dental dimensions, as well as the assessment of adaptive aspects of human variation such as nose form and skin color. He has made a point contrasting the aspects of human form that are under selective force control with those that demonstrably are not, and has shown how the latter can be used to evaluate populations relationships going back into the past where there are no direct historical data.

He is currently working on two major projects:
1 - The Origins of Native Americans;
2 – The Emergence of \"Modern\" human morphology.

Prix et récompenses

2006 Darwin Award (American Association of Physical Anthropology)

Publications

2000 A comparative craniofacial analysis of 24 Asian and Pacific populations using neighbor-joining method. Junior author with Noriko Seguchi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 30, Annual Meeting Issue, p. 277.

A craniofacial perspective on the peopling of the New World, with A. R. Nelson. Abstract. 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, p. A40

Does race exist? An antagonists’s perspective. Nova Online .

Evolution in an Anthropological View. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California, 407 pp.

A Four-Letter Word Called “Race” (1994), posted as Current Commentary for October/November, The Abolitionist Examiner, .

Human skin color as a measure of time in situ. Junior author with M. Henneberg. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 30, Annual Meeting Issue, p 177.

The Peopling of the Americas: Anglo Stereotypes and Native American Realities (with A. Russell Nelson), in Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson (eds.) Cultural Diversity in the United States, Blackwell, Oxford. pp. 46-56.

The Raw and the Cooked: A Plio/Pleistocene Just So Story, or Sex, Food, and the Origin of the Pair Bond. Social Science Information sur les Sciences Sociales, 39(1):17-27.March, 2000.

Review of Perspectives in Human Biology: Is Human Evolution a Closed Chapter? Maciej Henneberg and Charles Oxnard (eds.). naturalSCIENCE (Victoria, B.C.). ;

June 6, 2000

Tooth size differences and the antiquity of cooking. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 30, Annual Meeting Issue, pp. 110-111.

Without Prejudice, Letter to The New York Times Book Review, April 9, p. 4.

2001 Comment on How “Caucasoids” Got Such Big Crania and Why They Shrank, by Leonard Lieberman. Current Anthropology 42(1):80-81. February.

Debunking Biological Theories of Race, Review of The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium, by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. The American Scientist 89:277.

Morphometric and molecular perspectives on the comparison of human populations (with Noriko Seguchi and A. Russell Nelson). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 32, Annual Meeting Issue, pp.42-43.

Old World Sources of the First New World Inhabitants, with A. Russell Nelson, Noriko Seguchi, Hiroaki Oe, Leslie Sering, Pan Qifeng, Li Yongyi and Dashtseveg Tumen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98(17)10017-10022.

Frank Spencer (1941-1999): Historian of Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 103(1):171-174.

The peopling of the Americas: Anglo stereotypes and Native American realities (with A. R. Nelson) in Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson (eds.)

Cultural Diversity in the United States. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. pp. 46-56.

Review of Murderous Science. Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945, by Benno Müller-Hill. Human Biology 73(1):156-159.

2002. Background for the peopling of the New World: Old World roots for New World Branches. Athena Review 3(2):50-59.

The Concept of Race in Physical Anthropology, Chapter 16 in Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember, eds., Physical Anthropology: Original Readings on Method and Practice. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. pp. 239-253.

Cooking in Antiquity. Raw Foods News October 24, pp. 1-5.
Foreword to Ban Chiang, A Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand II: The Human Skeletal Material, by Michael Pietrusewsky and Michele Toomay Douglas. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. p. xv.

Human evolution: a Neanderthal skeleton in a sapiens closet (with Noriko Seguchi and Conrad Quintyn.) American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 34:47. Annual Meeting Issue.

Review of Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function, by Kenneth S. Saladin. Quarterly Review of Biology 77(1):51.

Review of The Monkey in the Mirror by Ian Tattersall. Human Nature Review 2:62-65.
Jan. 15. .

Review of The Riddled Chain: Chance, Coincidence and Chaos in Human Evolution by Jeffrey McKee. Human Nature Review 2:122-124. March 28.

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2003 All in the Family? Letter to Natural History 112(2):12.

Bushwa. Letter to Island Ad-Vantages 74(8):5. February 20.

Debate Over a Skull. Letter to The New York Times June 20, WK 10.

“Neutral Theory” and the dynamics of the evolution of “modern” human morphology. Abstract Book, Vol. I:22. XV ICAES 2K3. Humankind/Nature Interaction: Past, Present and Future. Florence (ITALY) July 5th – 12th , 2003.

New World Paleoindians in craniometric perspective: New looks at old faces. Third author with Noriko Seguchi and A. Russell Nelson. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Annual Meeting Issue, Supplement 36 p. 188.

Odontoblivion, in To wit: Anthropological limericks — answering the call. Anthropological News 44(5):56.

Parker’s Point. Letter to Island Ad-Vantages 74(14):4. April 3.

“Race” is not a valid biological category (with Noriko Seguchi), in Yasuko Takezawa (ed.) Is Race a Universal Idea? Colonialism, Nation-States, and a Myth Invented. Institute of Research In Humanities, Kyoto University. pp. 44-83.

2004 An odontometric and craniometric perspective on past and present population relationships in east and southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. With Noriko Seguchi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Annual Meeting Issue, Supplement 38 p. 67.

Peopling of the New World: A Comparative Craniofacial view, with A. Russell Nelson, and Pan Qifeng, in C. Michael Barton, Geoffrey A. Clark, David Yesner, and Georges A. Pearson (eds.) The Settlement of the American Continents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. pp. 23-38.

in press

Bipedalism, canine tooth reduction, and obligatory tool use. Comment on Prelinguistic Evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? by Dean Falk. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Craniofacial form and regional population affinities: A comparative approach to paleo-indian Origins. Third author after A. Russell Nelson and Noriko Seguchi, in William C. Sturtevant (general editor) Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Human emergence: Natural process or Divine creation? in Laurie R. Godfrey and Andrew J Petto (eds.) Scientists Confront Creationism, revised ed. W. W. Norton, N.Y.

“Race” Is a Four Letter Word: The Genesis of the Concept, Oxford University Press, New York.
“Race” is Not a Valid Biological Concept, with Noriko Seguchi. Anthropological Science 111(1).

Review of Biologists and the Promise of American Life from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey, By Philip J. Pauly. Human Biology.

“Science” in the Service of Racism: Review of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Current Anthropology; also in Ashley Montagu (ed.) Race and IQ, 2nd. ed., Oxford University Press.