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Stephen
Frost (B.A. 1994, CSU-Long Beach; Ph.D. 2001, City University of
New York) has been an assistant professor at the University of Oregon
since 2004. Stephen Frost is a paleontologist and morphometrician
interested in evolutionary theory as well as human and primate
evolution. His research on late Miocene to Pleistocene East African
cercopithecids (the Old World monkeys) has focused on describing the
material from the Middle Awash, Gona, and Hadar, including several new
taxa, as well as the relationship between African cercopithecid
evolution and global climatic change. He is also interested in the
quantitative analysis of biological shape, particularly using the
techniques of geometric morphometrics. He has been involved in
morphometric analysis involving modern baboons, the Eurasian Pliocene
fossil Paradolichopithecus as
well as comparing modern humans and Neanderthals. He has been to the
field with the Gona Research Project in the Afar region of Northern
Ethiopia (directed by Sileshi Semaw) and is involved with a
paleontological research project in the Aliakmon river valley in
Northern Greece (directed by Katerina Harvati).
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