ADDRESS: Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Charleston
66 George St.
Charleston, S.C. 29424
office: 88 Wentworth, Room 204. phone: (843) 953-1353 or 5738. e-mail: coped@CofC.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, August,
1989 (Biological Anthropology)
Comprehensive examinations in
skeletal biology and paleoanthropology
Dissertation: "Systematic Variation in Cercopithecus
Dental Samples."
M.A., University of Kansas, October, 1983. (Biological Anthropology)
B.G.S., University of Kansas, May, 1978. (Anthropology)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
biological anthropology, vertebrate paleontology, primate
evolution, human evolution, primate behavior,
skeletal biology, fossil species concepts, Late Cretaceous, Palocene
and Eocene mammals, mammalian biostratigraphy, evolutionary theory, dental
anthropology, paleoecology, faunal analysis, anthropological theory.
MEMBER:
American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
National Center for Science Education.
Lambda AlphaNational Honor Society for Anthropology
Society for Vertebrate Paleontology
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