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Brief Biography (English)
Professor Lynne Alison Schepartz trained in Biological Anthropology in the United States, with specialisation in paleoanthropology and skeletal biology. Her work focuses on the interaction between biology and behaviour. Major research projects include the evolution of language and complex behaviors; brain evolution in Chinese Homo erectus; the evolution of behavioral complexity in China; skeletal biology and social complexity in prehistoric societies of China, Greece and Albania; dental development in Southern African children resulting in the WITS Atlas of Dental Development; parity and oral health of Hausa women in Nigeria.
