MA Student

I am interested in understanding the mechanisms/processes through which humans come to display such wide variation in morphology. My MA research will focus on identifying neutral morphological variation in human long bones, aiming to improve our ability to use these elements to interpret behaviour in the past by differentiating between adaptive and neutral variation. My previous research experience largely consists of my honours research at UVic where I examined ontogenetic vs activity-related shape variation in the proximal femoral metaphysis of archaeological forgers populations using 3D Geometric Morphometric and Cross-Sectional Geometric approaches. Additionally I have been involved in the excavation and archeological analysis of Ancient Eleon (Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project, Greece).

Keywords: morphology, phenotypic diversity, the evolution of human variation, skeletal biology