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St. Cloud State University

St. Cloud State University

Anthropology ProgramDepartment of Sociaology and Anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology Faculty: Matt Tornow

Matt TornowMatt Tornow

Associate Professor of Anthropology

 

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Primate Evolution and Systematics
  • Human and Non-human Primate Skeletal Morphology
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Dental Anthropology
  • Systematic Biology

Current Courses

  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Human Origins
  • Introductory Bioanthropology
  • Race and Human Variation
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Primate Biology and Evolution
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Proseminar in Biological Anthropology

Select Publications

Tornow, MA. 2008. Systematic analysis of the Eocene primate family Omomyidae using gnathic and postcranial data. Bull. Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist. 49:43-129

Tornow, MA, Ford, SM, Garber, PA, and de sa Sauerbrunn, E. 2006. The dentition of moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax mystax) from Padre Isla, Peru. Part 1: Quantitative variation. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.130:252-263.

Tornow, MA. 2006. Polymorphism, character fixation, and soft homoplasy: Interpretations of intraspecific variability in omomyoid phylogeny. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.(Supplement) 42:178.