- Ralph Holloway
Ralph Holloway (born 1935) is a
physical anthropologist atColumbia University and research associate with theAmerican Museum of Natural History . Since obtaining his Ph.D from theUniversity of California, Berkley in 1964, Holloway has served as a professor ofanthropology at Columbia. Holloway's interests lie incraniology , producingendocast s, primate behavior,biology of gender ,sexual dimorphism in thecorpus callosum , and other topics.Holloway's work on the
Taung Child was one of the first to suggest brain reorganization occurring before the increase of brain size in hominids. His claim that the lunate sulcus, a sulcus which marks the boundary of the occipital lobe, was in a posterior position to that of apes suggests that the reduction of the occipital lobe was accompanied by enlargements of parts of the brain associated with higher cognitive function. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/science/27prof.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science Ralph Holloway - Anthropology - In Study of Brain Evolution, Zeal and Bitter Debate - New York Times ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.columbia.edu/~rlh2/ Holloway's Columbia Website]
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