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    Claude Lovejoy

    Claude Owen Lovejoy

    Distinguished Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
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    Email:
    olovejoy@aol.com
    Phone:
    330-672-4363
    Fax:
    330-672-2999

    Biography

    Western Reserve University, B.A., 1965, Psychology; Case Institute of Technology M.A., 1967, Biological Anthropology; University of Massachusetts, Ph.D., 1970, Biological Anthropology; Case Western Reserve Univ., 1971-1972, Post-doctoral: Orthopaedic Biomechanics

    "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

     

    Education

    B.A. in Psychology, Western Reserve University, 1965
    M.A. in Biological Anthropology, Case Institute of Technology, 1967
    Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1970
    Post-doctoral: Orthopedic Biomechanics, Case Western Reserve University, 1971-1972

    Expertise

    Human Origins Modeling
    Developmental Biology of the Vertebrate Limb
    Bone/Cartilage Development and Structure
    Orthopaedic Biomechanics
    Human Palaeontology
    Palaeodemography
    Sexual Dimorphism in Mammals
    Mammalian and Human Taxonomy
    Forensic Medicine

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