 Daniel
Gebo
Ph.D., Duke, 1986
Presidential Research
Professor
Professor Gebo is a biological anthropologist/primatologist with
interests in anatomy and primate evolution. His research focuses
on understanding locomotor adaptation and evolution in living and
fossil primates. He has conducted fieldwork in the western United
States, Central and South America, Asia, and Africa. His most recent
field projects have been in both the Philippines observing tarsiers
as well as collecting fossil primates from the Eocene era in China.
He was named a Presidential Research Professor in 1998.
Professor Gebo teaches courses in primate anatomy and evolution,
primate behavior, and introductory physical anthropology.
Selected Publications
Middle Eocene Primate Tarsals from China: Implications for Haplorhine
Evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116:
83-107, with M. Dagosto, K.C. Beard and T. Qi, 2001.
The Oldest Known Anthropoid Postcranial Fossils and the Early Evolution
of Higher Primates. Nature 404: 276-278, with M. Dagosto,
K.C. Beard, T. Qi, and J. Wang, 2000.
A Hominoid Genus from the Early Miocene of Uganda. Science
276: 401-404, with L. MacLatchy, D. Pilbeam, A. Deino, J. Kingston
and R. Kitio, 1997.
Climbing Brachiation and Terrestrial Quadrupedalism: Historical
Precursors of Hominid Bipedalism. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 101: 55-92, 1996.
Positional Behavior in Five Sympatric Old World Monkeys. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 97: 49-76, with C.A. Chapman,
1995.
Postcranial Adaptation in Nonhuman Primates. Edited Volume,
DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Plantigrady and Foot Adaptation in African Apes: Implications for
Hominid Origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
89: 29-58, 1992.
Contact Information:
Dr. Daniel Gebo
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-0449
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: dgebo@niu.edu
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