Canadian Scientist: Tracy Kivell
Not much is known about Tracy Kivell. She is a paleoanthropologist, she studies the function of the wrist and hand of fossils that came from primates. She studies fossil hominoids and tries to understand how human feet and hands have evolved throughout time and she tries to understand the starting point of human hands and feet. She tries to understand the function of the structures by analyzing the different parts and then breaking down the structure of each part. She worked on many projects such as
the motion of knuckle-walking in African apes, Trabecular architecture of the primate forearm and carpus and the function of the structure of fossil wrist bones of Miocene hominoids. In 2001, she received her Honours Bachelor of Science at Western University and the University of Toronto and then in 2007, she got her PhD from the University of Toronto for Anthropology. Before she got her PhD, she worked at Duke University as a research associate. When she was there, she studied the pressure and force that is experienced by the hands of primates when moving. She currently works at McMaster University. She participated in field excavations in Hungary, Plio-Pleistocene and in South Africa. She has gotten many awards over the years such as the American Association of Anatomists Travel Award in 2009, General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award in
2005-2006 then again in 2006-2007, and many more. You can contact her by phone at 0049-(0)-341-3550-365 or by email at [email protected],de.
Bibliography:
· Tracy Kivell | Homepage. (n.d.). Max Planck Institute Leipzig | Home . Retrieved June 16, 2012, from http://www.eva.mpg.de/evolution/staff/kivell/index.htm
the motion of knuckle-walking in African apes, Trabecular architecture of the primate forearm and carpus and the function of the structure of fossil wrist bones of Miocene hominoids. In 2001, she received her Honours Bachelor of Science at Western University and the University of Toronto and then in 2007, she got her PhD from the University of Toronto for Anthropology. Before she got her PhD, she worked at Duke University as a research associate. When she was there, she studied the pressure and force that is experienced by the hands of primates when moving. She currently works at McMaster University. She participated in field excavations in Hungary, Plio-Pleistocene and in South Africa. She has gotten many awards over the years such as the American Association of Anatomists Travel Award in 2009, General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award in
2005-2006 then again in 2006-2007, and many more. You can contact her by phone at 0049-(0)-341-3550-365 or by email at [email protected],de.
Bibliography:
· Tracy Kivell | Homepage. (n.d.). Max Planck Institute Leipzig | Home . Retrieved June 16, 2012, from http://www.eva.mpg.de/evolution/staff/kivell/index.htm