Target Audience

Des Moines University faculty, staff, and students.

Speaker

Scott Maddux, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri

Education

• PhD in Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• MA in Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• BA in Anthropology (Cum Laude), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Research

My research focuses on human evolution during the Middle and Late Pleistocene.  I am particularly interested in the distinctive craniofacial morphologies of Neandertals and anatomically modern H. sapiens, and the developmental, adaptive, and stochastic processes which produced them.  Related to these issues, I have specific interests in the relationship between size and shape of the human face, patterns of human craniofacial integration, and ecogeographical variation in human cranial morphology. To explore these topics, I employ multiple techniques and approaches, including linear and geometric morphometric analyses of human skeletal remains, and experimental modeling in non-human species. 

Current Projects

• Neandertal facial morphology and evolution
• Ecogeographical variation in human nasal morphology
• Maxillary sinus morphology and function 
• Facial sutures in craniofacial growth and development
• Behavior-morphology linkage during canid domestication and human evolution

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