C. Loring Brace
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Emeritus Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
https://lsa.umich.edu/anthro/people/emeritus/clbrace.html
Loring Brace retired as Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. His research addresses issues of morphological variability between human populations. His investigations focus on circumstances and dynamics involved in the development of differences in human skeletal and dental dimensions, as well as the assessment of adaptive aspects of human variation such as nose form and skin color. He has made a point contrasting the aspects of human form that are under selective force control with those that demonstrably are not, and has shown how the latter can be used to evaluate populations relationships going back into the past where there are no direct historical data. He is currently working on two major projects: 1 - The Origins of Native Americans; 2 – The Emergence of “Modern” human morphology.
C. Loring Brace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Loring_Brace
In 1962, Brace published a paper in American Anthropologist titled “Refocusing on the Neanderthal Problem” where he argued, in opposition to French anthropologist Henri Vallois, that the archeological and fossil evidence did not necessarily support the idea that the Neanderthals were replaced by Cro-Magnon populations migrating into Europe, rather than being ancestral to early Homo sapiens.
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