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Center for the Study of Human Origins

Department of
Anthropology

 
New York University

25 Waverly Place
New York City
NY 10003

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Steve Worthington

 

Position: Doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology, New York
University, and New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology

Education: B.A. 2000 University of Durham (UK)
M.Sc. 2002 University of Durham (UK)

E-mail:
steven.worthington@nyu.edu

Research Focus: My research interests are focused on four major areas: (1) craniodental morphology; (2) the evolution of anthropoid primates; (3) homoplasy across mammalian taxa; and, (4) the theory and method of phylogenetic inference. Within these areas I am specifically interested in the comparative anatomy and phylogeny of extant and Miocene hominoid primates, including the extent to which the postcrania of living hominoids is the product of parallel evolution, and the sequence of character evolution in these taxa.


Publications:

  • Worthington, S. (2004) Character analysis of hominoid trunk and forelimb morphology: synapomorphy or homoplasy? American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Supplement 38:211. (Abstract)

  • Worthington, S. & Read, C. (2003) Primate evolution and adaptation. Evolutionary Anthropology 12(4):164.

  • Worthington, S. (2003) The extent of homoplasy in the trunk and forelimb of the Hominoidea. Primate Eye 79:7. (Abstract)