Richard J. Smith (anthropologist)
- Richard J. Smith (anthropologist)
Richard J. Smith,an American dentist and anthropologist, (b. 1948 - ) is Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis He was previously professor and chair of the Department of Orthodontics in its School of Dental Medicine. He is now Dean of Graduate Studies in its College of Arts and Sciences.
Education
Richard Jay Smith, hailing from New York, spent his undergraduate years at Brooklyn College, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1969. He went on to Tufts University to earn a M.S. in Anatomy as well as a DMD. After Tufts, he studied at Yale University where he earned a masters in philosophy in 1978 and a doctorate in anthropology in 1980. [ cite web | url=http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/dental/bios/index.html |Title=Selected Biographies |work=http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/dental/bios/index.html] ] Hi
At Washington University
Richard Smith joined the faculty at Washington University in 1984 and served as a professor and chair of the Department of Orthodontics, in the former School of Dental Medicine.[cite web | url=http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9995.html | title=Richard Smith to Become ArtSci Graduate Dean| work= [http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9995.html] ] He joined the Department of Anthropology in 1991. He founded the Program in Applied Statistics and Computation, now the Center for Applied Statistics, at Washington University, and served as its first director from 2002-04]Among undergraduates, Smith is famous for his course "Introduction in Human Evolution" which has continuously been one of the most popular classes on campus until his appointment as Dean of Arts and Sciences in 2008. The course features topics from the historical development of the theory of evolution, fossil evidence, the morphological features of primates, to the beginnings of modern humans and is noted by many students to be particularly engaging, due in part to Smith's dynamic teaching style. The last class of the course is heavily attended by students, former students, and students who have never taken the course, and is famously known as "Smith's Last Lecture." Every year this lecture typically ends in a standing and resounding ovation. [ cite web | url=http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2007/12/07/Forum/Thank.You.Dr.Smith-3138527.shtml | title= Thank You, Dr. Smith | work= [http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2007/12/07/Forum/Thank.You.Dr.Smith-3138527.shtml] ]
Research
He is a specialist in the application of statistics to the general record of human evolution; specifically, how the information of the necessarily incomplete human fossil record can be validly used for complex inferences. He specificaly is concerned with the evolution of the human brain, the craniofacial skeleton and gender differences in body size. [ [http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/141.html WUSTL News] ]
elected recent publications
*"Biology and Body Size in Human Evolution: Statistical Inference Misapplied", "Current anthropology". 37, no. 3, (1996): 451-481Smith, R.J.
* (with W.L. Jungers) "Body mass in comparative primatology." ' Journal of Human Evolution" 32:523-559. (1997)
* (with S.R. Leigh) "Sexual dimorphism in primate neonatal body mass." "Journal of Human Evolution" 34: 173-201. (1998)
* Statistics of sexual size dimorphism. "Journal of Human Evolution" 36: 423-458. (1999 )
* (with J.M. Cheverud) "Scaling of sexual dimorphism in body mass: a phylogenetic analysis of Rensch's Rule in primates". "International Journal of Primatology" 23:1095-1135. (2002)
*" Species recognition in paleoanthropology: implications of small sample sizes." In:" Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal Evolution in Honor of David Pilbeam" (DE Lieberman, RJ Smith, and J Kelley, eds.). Boston, Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 207-219. (2005 )
* "Relative size versus controlling for size: interpretation of ratios in research on sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum." "Current Anthropology" 46: 249-273. (2005)
References
External links
* [http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/blurb/b_smith.html Offical web site at WUSTL]
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