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JAMES ROSSIE

PictureJames (left), with Stephen Longoria (right) at Moruorot.

James Rossie is a biological anthropologist whose work focuses on the evolution of catarrhines, particularly hominoids. His field research includes the West Turkana Miocene Project, co-directed with Susanne Cote, and ongoing work in the middle Miocene Ngorora Formation of the Tugen Hills. 

REACHE Roles: catarrhine primates, primate phylogenetics; co-director of the West Turkana Miocene Project. 

Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/stonybrook.edu/james-b-rossie/




Biography: After earning my PhD at Yale University in 2003, I held a two-year postdoctoral position in the Section of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  Since 2005, I have been a professor (assistant, then associate) in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook where I teach human and primate evolution.  




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Funded by the National Science Foundation, USA