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Kes Schroer

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Project:
IGERT: Dynamics of behavioral shifts in human evolution: brains, bodies and ecology
Role:
Graduate Student
Joined IGERT:
2008
Univ. or Institute:
George Washington University
Department:
Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology
Primary Discipline:
Hominid Paleobiology
Academic Interests:
teaching evolution, diet, teeth, human evolution, genetics, primates, ecology
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Biomechanical analysis of human tool use

Students in GWU’s Brains, Bodies, & Ecology IGERT are utilizing a Pliance sensor system to collect pressure data acting on the human hand during various kinds of tool production and use. By understanding... More »

About Me

Kes is a student in GWU’s Hominid Paleobiology Doctoral Program and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research concentrates on the morphology and developmental origins of molarization. She will be using her investigations of molarization in sympatric New World monkeys to better understand the patterns of molarization present in the fossil hominin clade Paranthropus. Kes’s outreach work is focused on developing strategies for teaching human evolution. She has interned with the American Museum of Natural History and National Museum of Natural History and written for the National Center for Science Education.