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Shara
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Dr.
Bailey working with a cast of Arago |
Dr.
Bailey holding the Mauer mandible
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Dr.
Bailey and team working at Jonzac
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Research
Focus: My primary research interests are in addressing paleoanthropological questions from a dental perspective. The major focus of my research has been Middle-Late Pleistocene hominins and modern human origins. As a postdoctoral fellow at The George Washington University I expanded my research interests to include Plio-Pleistocene hominins and apes. I have collected dental morphometric data on nearly every Neandertal and Upper Paleolithic modern human specimen available for study. I have also built an extensive comparative database of contemporary and fossil human dental morphometrics. I have recently expanded my research area to include Asia and Russia and hope to build strong collaborations with my colleagues at institutions there. I am also beginning a morphometric study of the deciduous dentition of fossil hominins, with emphasis on Neandertals and modern humans. PhD students under my supervision are working on biological and cultural change in Europe from the Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic (Suzanne Price); biodistance, migration and evolution in North Africa and the Near East (Yasmine El Gabbani) and dental variation in South America and peopling of the New World (Alejandra Ortiz).
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Dr.
Bailey and Dr. Jacov Radovcic working with
Krapina in
Croatia
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Daris Swindler (a leading primate expert) recently donated his Primate Dental Cast Collection to CSHO. The cast collection consists of more than 2000 dental casts representing every primate species known (and some non-primate relatives), as well as several human populations. Eventually, NYU plans to scan the entire collection in three-dimensions and make it virtually available for remote researchers via an internet database. The collections will provide the foundation for developing standards for scoring non-human primate dental morphological variation, for studies of human and non-human primate variation as well as studies of growth and development. |
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Recent
and Selected Publications:
- 2008. Bailey,
S. E.. Inter- and intra-specific variation in Pan tooth crown morphology: implications for Neandertal taxonomy.. In Irish D and Nelson G (Eds) Technique and Appliation in Dental Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-316.
- 2008. Bailey,
S. E., Glantz M, Weaver TD, & Viola B. The affinity of the dental remains from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan.. Jounal of Human Evolution.
- 2007. Bailey,
S. E. & J. J. Hublin (Eds). Dental Perspectives
on Human Evolution - State of the art research in dental paleoanthropology. Dordrecht:
Springer
- 2007. Bailey
S.E. The
evolution of non-metric dental variation in Europe. Mitt Ges Urgesch. 15: 9-30.
- 2006. Bailey
S.E. Beyond
shovel shaped incisors. Neandertal dental morphology
in a comparative context.
Periodicum Biologorum. 108: 253-267.
- 2006. Bailey
S.E. and Hublin J-J.
Dental
remains from Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). Journal
of Human Evolution 50: 485-508.
- 2005. Bailey
S.E. and Hublin J-J. Who
made the Early Aurignacian? A reconsideration
of the Brassempouy dental remains.
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie
de Paris, 17:1-7.
- 2005. Bailey S.E. and Lynch
J. Variation
in mandibular P4 shape between Neandertals
and anatomically modern humans:
A new
character for use in phylogenetic analyses? American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 126:
268-277.
- 2004 Bailey S.E. A
morphometric analysis of maxillary molar crowns of Middle-Late
Pleistocene hominins.
Journal of Human Evolution
47:
183-198.
- 2004. Bailey S.E.,
Pilbrow VC, Wood BA. Interobserver
error in independent attempts to measure cusp
base areas
of Pan
M1s. Journal of Anatomy 205: 323-331.
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