I had more tine to look at the data my anthropology teacher gave me.
It is length of long bones among different human population, as well as gorilla, chimps and Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis.
I don't know yet what i'm going to do with it, but as I am more interested in palaeontology, I will probably infer ecological features of Lucy, knowing modern adapatations of humans to environment. Or maybe food habits... I don't know!
The only thing I know is that I need to search for papers on top on this data because figures only are not enough.
Or maybe if I am brave enough and I have enough time, I can do my Independent Project on as many aspects of Lucy I can infer from this data as I can!
Let's see what will happen...
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Have you done any work with Katharine Jack? She does primate evolution, ecology, and behavior. She is very interesting. Although not a paleontolgist, she might be able to help you make some ecological connections!
No I don't know her. But My teacher (Trenton Holliday) is a paleoanthropologist. As most of my data is about human societies, I think I can manage to do it, but thank you if I need more information about primates' ecological behavior, I would probably go and ask her !
Sounds very interesting! There are several professors and grad students in the anthropology department doing work with primates. One grad student I'm taking a class with now (his first name is Brian, can't remember his last) is working on facial reconstruction using skulls. It sounds like there's lots of interesting work going on over there, and lots of knowledgeable people who could help you.
Guillaume,
That's great that you were able to find a data set that interests you. It will probably make your project a lot more interesting than if you were analyzing coin tosses- which is what Mike said some people might have to use for a data set if they couldn't find one!
Cheers,
Rebecca
I think I know who you are talking about nicole, is he brown or bland hair guy, nice with a earring ?
coin tosses are.... interesting... not to me but I guess some people are interested in that! But i hope noone in the class would have to get data from coin tosses !
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