- Introduction to Anthropology (101)
- Evolution and Human Emergence (150)
- Human Evolution Laboratory (151L)
- Human Biology (350)
- Anthropology of the Human Skeleton (351)
- Human Origins (357)
- Paleoanthropology (457/557)
- Reconstructing Life from the Skeleton (458)
- Inferring Behavior from the Skeleton (556)
- Seminar (with Lawrence Straus): The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition (577)
- ANTH 577 - Seminar: European Prehistory: The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition (co-taught with Dr. Lawrence Straus)
University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology, BA 1990
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Anthropological Sciences, MA 1995, PhD 1997
Dissertation: “Postcranial Morphology and the Origin of Modern Humans”
Paleoanthropology, origin of modern humans, skeletal biology, functional morphology, quantitative methods; Africa, Europe
“Statistical and Biological Definitions of ‘Anatomically Modern’ Humans: Suggestions for an Integrated Approach to Modern Morphology,” Evolutionary Anthropology 17 (2008): 38-48
(K. J. Carlson, F. E. Grine and Pearson) “Robusticity and Sexual Dimorphism in the Postcranium of Modern Hunter-Gatherers from Australia,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134 (2007): 9-23
(T. E. Hanson and Pearson) “Fitting MANOVA Models with Missing Continuous Data Using Reference Priors,” Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation 36 (2007): 621-30
(J. Baker and Pearson) “Statistical Methods in Bioarchaeology: Applications of Ageadjustment and Logistic Regression to Comparisons of Skeletal Populations with Differing Agestructures,” Journal of Archaeological Science 33 (2006): 218-26
(Y. M. Lam and Pearson) “Bone Density Studies and the Interpretation of the Faunal Record,” Evolutionary Anthropology 14 (2005): 99-108
(Y. M. Lam and Pearson) “The Fallibility of Bone Density Values and Their Use in Archaeological Analyses,” Journal of Taphonomy 2 (2004): 99-115
(and D. E. Lieberman) “The Aging of Wolff’s ‘Law’: Ontogeny and Responses to Mechanical Loading in Cortical Bone,” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 47 (2004): 63-99
“Has the Combination of Genetic and Fossil Data Solved the Riddle of the Origin of Modern Humans?” Evolutionary Anthropology 13 (2004): 145-59
(D. E. Lieberman, Pearson, J. D. Polk, B. Demes and A. W. Crompton) “Optimization of Bone Growth and Remodeling in Response to Loading in Tapered Mammalian Limbs,” Experimental Biology 206 (2003): 3125-38
(D. E. Lieberman, M. J. Devlin and Pearson) “Articular Surface Area Responses to Mechanical Loading: Effects of Exercise, Age, and Skeletal Location,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116 (2001): 266-77