Matt
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.
