Hunter Professor of Anthropology Makes Interesting Discoveries

Christopher Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was the lead author on an article entitled Papio Cranium from the Hominin-Bearing Site of Malapa: Implications for the Evolution of Modern Baboon Cranial Morphology and South African Plio-Pleistocene Biochronology.  The study details findings surrounding the discovery in South Africa of a fossil monkey specimen representing the earliest baboon ever found, dating back more than 2 million years.   The study, which received international attention, including in the Daily Mail, illustrates that humans and baboons co-existed prior to taking different evolutionary paths.