My current/planned research looks at how skeletal morphology of terrestrial mammals maps onto ecology. How does skull and limb bone anatomy relate to ecological niche, e.g. diet, habitat, and climate (biogeography)? This work is museum-based. Museum skeletal collections provide access to specimens across a wider geographic range and suite of morphometric measurements than would be practically available for research from living species in-situ. Skeletons give us a representation of a species (and the resulting morphology of accumulated evolutionary history), a population, and an individual, at the time of death. Skeletal material also gives an insight into life experiences through growth and pathology.



More will post here as the research progresses.

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