Biology graduate published in Journal of Human Evolution

Congratulations to Caroline Cartwright, former student in Dr. Chirchir’s lab, on her publication in the Journal of Human Evolution. The paper is titled “Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans”. Her research confirmed existing work suggesting that modern humans have ‘lightly’ built skeletons in having low bone density compared to our ancestors from earlier than ~10,000 years ago but she also found that there was some variations depending the skeletal region sampled. For instance, there wasn’t much variation in the hand bones.

Read more at Science Direct.

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