Office: EPS 1.136
Phone: (512) 471-7533
liza.shapiro@mail.utexas.edu

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Education: Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook, 1991

Research interests:
Primate evolution and functional morphology, locomotion.

Field(s) of Study: Physical Anthropology

Recent Publications:
(in press) Shapiro L. Morphological and functional differentiation in the lumbar spine of lorisids and galagids. American Journal of Primatology.

(In press) Shapiro L, and Raichlen D. Limb proportions and the ontogeny of quadrupedal walking in infant baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Journal of Zoology.

2005 Shapiro L, Seiffert C, Godfrey L, Jungers W, Simons E, and Randria G. Morphometric analysis of lumbar vertebrae in extinct Malagasy strepsirrhines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 128:823-839.

2005 Shapiro L, and Raichlen D. Lateral sequence walking in infant Papio cynocephalus: Implications for the evolution of diagonal sequence walking in primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 126:205-213.