MTocheri

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Matt Tocheri is a paleoanthropologist in the Human Origins Program of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.  Dr. Tocheri’s main research interests surround the evolutionary history and functional morphology of the human and great ape family, the Hominidae.  His work on the wrist of Homo floresiensis, the so-called ‘hobbits’ of human evolution, received considerable attention worldwide after it was published in 2007 in the journal Science. Dr. Tocheri’s other recent publications appear in Nature, Journal of Human Evolution, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal of Anatomy, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Dental Anthropology, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.  He is also a co-author of The Osteology of Infants and Children, available from Texas A&M University Press.

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http://humanorigins.si.edu/research/hop-team/matt-tocheri