Anthropology Faculty: Matt Tornow

Matt Tornow

Matt Tornow

Associate Professor of Anthropology

matornow@stcloudstate.edu

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Research Interests

I am a physical anthropologist with research interests in primate origins and the subsequent evolution of major primate clades, theory and method in systematic biology, and primate adaptation – particularly as it is manifested in the skeleton.

Current Courses

  • ANTH 140: Human Origins
  • ANTH 240: Introductory Bioanthropology
  • ANTH 342: Race and Human Variation
  • ANTH 442: Primate Biology and Evolution
  • ANTH 443: Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • ANTH 447/547: Essentials of Forensic Anthropology
  • ANTH 640: Proseminar in Biological Anthropology

Select Papers and Publications

2009   Gaytán, E. and Tornow, MA. A case of bilateral auditory exostosis from the Pacific coast of central-south Chile. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Supplement) 48:168.

2008   Tornow, MA.  Systematic analysis of the Eocene primate family Omomyidae using gnathic and postcranial data.  Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49:43-129.

2006   Tornow, MA, Ford, SM, Garber, PA, and de sa Sauerbrunn, E.  The dentition of moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax mystax) from Padre Isla, Peru.  Part 1: Quantitative variation.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:352-363.

2006   Tornow, MA.  Polymorphism, character fixation, and soft homoplasy: Interpretations of intraspecific variability in omomyoid phylogeny.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Supplement) 42:178.

2004   Tornow, MA.  Variation in omomyid ankles and its implications for phylogeny reconstruction.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Supplement) 38:196.

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