Terry Harrison

Associate Chair
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center for the Study of Human Origins
B.Sc. 1978, Ph.D. 1982, University College, London.

Terry Harrison is a physical anthropologist specializing in primate and human paleontology, evolutionary morphology, and paleoecology. His broader research interests include the systematics and evolutionary history of hominoids and cercopithecoids, comparative anatomy and functional morphology of primates, paleobiology, allometry, vertebrate paleontology, evolutionary theory, taphonomy, paleoecology and zooarchaeology. He has extensive paleontological fieldwork experience in Europe, East Africa, and Asia. His current major research projects include early hominid paleontology at Laetoli in northern Tanzania, phylogenetic relationships and paleobiology of early Miocene catarrhines from East Africa, systematics of Miocene fossil apes from China, and the impact of human hunting and paleoecological change at prehistoric sites in Borneo.

Publications
“The zoogeographic and phylogenetic relationships of early catarrhine primates in Asia.” Harrison, T. Anthropological Science 113: 43-51. 2005

“Fossil struthionid eggshells from Laetoli, Tanzania: Their taxonomic and biostratigraphic significance.” Harrison, T. & Msuya, C. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 2005.

“The last common ancestor of apes and humans.” Andrews, P. & Harrison, T. In Lieberman, D. (Editor), American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series. 2005

“Late Oligocene to middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia.” Harrison, T. In Hartwig, W. (Editor) Primate Fossil Record, pp. 311-338. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002.

On the systematic status of the late Miocene and Pliocene hominoids from Yunnan Province, China. Harrison, T.; Ji, X. & Su, D. Journal of Human Evolution 43: 207-227. 2002.

“Archaeological and ecological implications of the primate fauna from prehistoric sites in Borneo.” Harrison, T. Bulletin of the Indo–Pacific Prehistory Association 20: 133-146. 2000.

“Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania: A Window into East African Evolutionary History.” Harrison, T. (Editor) New York: Plenum Press. 1997.