Department of Neuroscience

Research Abstract

Work in my laboratory is focused upon the analysis of paleontological evidence for primate and human evolution. I am currently involved in several multidisciplinary paleoanthropological field projects in the American West. Our previous fieldwork in Namibia discovered the first Miocene hominoid ever found in sub-equatorial Africa and one of the most extensive middle Miocene faunas from Africa. I am currently interested in applying GIS and remote sensing techniques to paleoanthropological exploration. I am the Coursemaster of the Human Anatomy & Development course for first year medical students (and Anthropology PhD candidates) at Washington University Medical School.

Selected Publications

• Conroy, GC. (2014) Walking back the cat: Unsupervised classification as an aid in “remote” fossil prospecting. Evol. Anthropol. 23: 172-176.
• Conroy, GC, Emerson, C., Anemone, R., Townsend, K. (2012) Let your fingers do the walking: a simple spectral signature model for “remote” fossil prospecting. J. Hum. Evol. 63:79-84.
• Anemone, R., Emerson, C. Conroy, G. (2011) Finding Fossils in New Ways: An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Predicting the Location of Productive Fossil Localities. Evol. Anthropol. 20:169-180.
• Anemone, R., Conroy, GC, Emerson (2011) GIS and Paleoanthropology: Incorporating New Approaches from the Geospatial Sciences in the Analysis of Primate and Human Evolution. Yrbk. Phys. Anthropol. 54:19-46.
• Conroy GC, Anemone RL, Van Regenmorter J, Addison A (2008) Google earth, GIS, and the great divide: a new and simple method for sharing paleontological data. J. Hum. Evol. 55:751-755.
• Conroy GC and Smith RJ (2007) The size of scalable brain components in the human evolutionary lineage: with a comment on the paradox of Homo floresiensis. Homo 58:1-12.
• Conroy GC (2006) Creating, analyzing, and querying paleoanthropological maps using GIS: an example from the Uinta Basin Utah. Evol. Anthropol. 15:217-223.
• Conroy GC and Pontzer H (2012) Reconstructing Human Origins (3rd ed.). W.W. Norton and Co., NY, 732p.
• Conroy GC (1990) Primate Evolution. W.W. Norton and Co., NY, 492p.

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