Sharon Kuo, PhD

I am a biological anthropologist interested in functional morphology in extant and fossil primates. My research broadly focuses on how we and our closest living relatives interact with our environment and how that has changed over the course of our evolutionary history. This research takes the form of 1) kinematics, or understanding the movements of animals, 2) gross functional morphology, or understanding what the shapes of bones can tell us about movement in extant and fossil organisms, 3) trabecular bone analyses, or what the internal microstructure of bone can tell us about the organism, and 4) paleoanthropology, or the study of our ancestors through fossil fieldwork.