Dissertation Research:  Comparative Morphometrics of the    Frontal Bone in Hominids
{'Code': '04040400', 'Directorate': {'Abbreviation': 'SBE', 'LongName': 'Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie'}, 'Division': {'Abbreviation': 'BCS', 'LongName': 'Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci'}}
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The primary objective of this research is to evaluate the pattern               of the Late Pleistocene human fossil record in Southwest Asia,                  and to relate this pattern to the broader issue of modern human                 origins.  The study proposes to provide a systematic descriptive                and comparative analysis of the morphology of the frontal bone of               archaic, early anatomically modern, and Upper Paleolithic                       hominids.  Data from Middle and Late Pleistocene hominids in                    Europe and Africa will be used as a comparative sample.                                                                                                         Scientists currently recognize two contradictory models of modern               human origins:  long-term regional continuity (the candelabra                   model) and monocentric origin (the "out-of-Africa" model).                      Results of this analysis should help to clarify the relative                    importance of local continuity and extraneous influences in the                 emergence of moderns humans in Southwest Asia, and thus provide                 evidence for one or the other of these models.
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{'Name': 'University of Tennessee Knoxville', 'CityName': 'Knoxville', 'ZipCode': '379163801', 'PhoneNumber': '8659743466', 'StreetAddress': '1331 CIR PARK DR', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Tennessee', 'StateCode': 'TN'}
{'Code': '1392', 'Text': 'Biological Anthropology'}
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