CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Daniel Eric Lieberman

 

Address:

Department of Anthropology

Harvard University

11 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone: (617) 495-5479

Email:  danlieb@fas.harvard.edu

 

Education:

1993   Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University

1990   A.M., Anthropology, Harvard University

1987   M. Phil., Biological Anthropology, Cambridge University

1986   A.B., Summa cum Laude, Anthropology, Harvard College

 

Current Research and Teaching Positions:

Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Chair, Biological Anthropology

Curatorial Board, Peabody Museum

 

Previous Appointments:

1998-2001       Associate Professor, George Washington University

1995-1998       Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

1992-1995       Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University

1992              Instructor in Anthropology, Harvard University

1990-1992       Assistant Senior Tutor, Dunster House, Harvard University

1988-1992       Tutor in Anthropology, Dunster House, Harvard University

 

Professional Affiliations:

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Anthropological Association

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Paleoanthropology Society

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

 

Honors and Awards:

Junior Fellowship, Society of Fellows, 1993-1996 

Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1990, 1991, 1992

Harvard University Merit Fellowship, 1990-1991

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1987-1990

Frank Knox III Memorial Fellowship, 1986-1987

Phi Beta Kappa, 1986

National Merit Scholar, 1982

 

Grants Received:

2005-2007    National Science Foundation BCS 00443994 ($151,413)

                  "Head stabilization during human running."

2003-2005    National Science Foundation BCS 0423894 ($9,815)

           ŅInteractions between estradiol and mechanical loading on human

           longitudinal and periosteal bone growthÓ (DDIG: M Devlin)

2003-2005    National Science Foundation BCS 0433795 ($9,800)

ŅEffects of interactions between leg length and energy cost and speed

during walking and runningÓ (DDIG: H. Pontzer)

2000-2006    National Science Foundation IGERT 99-87590 ($2,632,062)

                  "Integrative Human Evolutionary Biology."

2000-2001    National Institutes of Health SBIR DE13875-01 ($97,068)

                  "The hyrax as a model for facial biomechanics and growth."

2000-2002    National Science Foundation BCS-0003143 ($12,000)

                  "Temporal resolution of oxygen and carbon stable isotope measurements              in tooth enamel" (DDIG, F. Wiedemann)

2001-2002    National Science Foundation BCS-00107474 ($12,000) ŅConstraints on

                  Primate Craniofacial Growth and FormÓ (Dissertation Improvement

                  Grant, R. McCarthy)

2000           National Science Foundation 98-137 ($118,274)

                  "Scanning Electron Microscope for Systematic Biology."

1999-2002    GWU Research Enhancement Fund ($120,000)

                  "The Evolution of Diet in Homo."

1997 -1999   National Science Foundation IBN 96-03833 ($125,000)

                  "Variation in cortical bone responses to exercise-induced loading"

1997-1999    American Federation for Aging Research ($39,915)

                  "Effects of age and exercise on cortical bone growth and porosity"

1996 - 1997  Busch Biomedical Research Foundation ($19,913)

                  "Modeling vs. remodeling responses to loading in cortical bone"

1993           Irene Levi Sala CARE Foundation ($7,500)

                  "Excavations of Nahal Ein Gev I"

1993           American School of Prehistoric Research ($6,000)

                  "Survey of West Turkana"

1993           George Putnam Grant ($5,500)

                  Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene Fauna and Hominid Sites in West

                  Turkana, Kenya"

1992-1993    Milton Fund, Harvard Medical School ($6,000)

                  "Generalized vs isolated responses to strain in cortical bone in Dasypus"

1990-1992    National Science Foundation BNS 9015973 ($7,690)

                  "Seasonality and Human Evolution in the Southern Levant"                               (Dissertation Improvement Grant)

1990 - 1992  Wenner-Gren Foundation ($3,750)

                  "Seasonality and Human Evolution in the Southern Levant"

1990 - 1992  L.S.B. Leakey Foundation ($3,500)

                  "Seasonality and Human Evolution in the Southern Levant"

1989 - 1990  CARE Foundation ($3,500)

                  "Determination of Levantine site seasonality from cementum analysis"

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books (edited)

Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution.  (2005) Lieberman D. E., Smith R. J., Kelley J., eds.  Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. 

 

Published original research articles:

1. Vaisnys J.R., Lieberman D.E., Pilbeam D. R.   (1984) An alternative method of estimating the cranial capacity of Olduvai Hominid 7.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology  65: 71-81.

2. Lieberman D.E., Pilbeam D.R., Wood, B. (1988) A probabilistic approach to the problem of sexual dimorphism in Homo habilis:  a comparison of KNM-ER 1470 and KNM-ER 1813.  Journal of Human Evolution 17: 503-511.

3. Dˇbard E., Bar-Yosef O., Chech M., Eisenmann V., Faure M., Guerin C., Lieberman D. E., Tchernov E. (1989) Nouvelle mission archˇologique et palˇontologique d'Oubˇidiyeh (Isra‘l):  premiers rˇsultats.  Palˇorient 15: 231-237.

4. Lieberman D.E., Deacon T.W., Meadow R.H. (1990) Computer image enhancement and analysis of cementum increments as applied to teeth of Gazella gazella.  Journal of Archaeological Science 17: 519-533.

5. Lieberman D.E. (1991) Seasonality and gazelle hunting at Hayonim Cave:  New evidence for "sedentism" during the Natufian.  Palˇorient 17: 47-57.

6. Lieberman D.E. Meadow R.H. (1992) The biology of cementum increments: with an archaeological perspective Mammal Review 17:1-25.

7. Lieberman D.E. (1993) Variability in the seasonal hunting of gazelle in the Levant by hunter-gatherers:  from the Mousterian to the Natufian.  In G. L. Peterkin, H. M. Bricker and P. Mellars (eds.) Hunting and Animal Exploitation in the Later Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Eurasia.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 4. pp. 207-219.

8. Lieberman D.E. (1993) The rise and fall of hunter-gatherer seasonal mobility:  the case of the southern Levant. Current Anthropology 34: 599-631.

9. Lieberman D.E. (1993) Life history variables preserved in dental cementum microstructure.  Science 261: 1162-1164.

10. Lieberman D.E., Bar-Yosef O. (1994)  On sedentism and cereal gathering in the Natufian.  Current Anthropology 35: 431-434.

11. Lieberman D.E, Shea J.J. (1994) Behavioral differences between archaic and modern humans in the Levantine Mousterian.  American Anthropologist 96: 300-332.

12. Lieberman D.E. Seasonality estimates from Hatoula. (1994) In M. Lechevallier and A. Ronen (eds.) Le Gisement de Hatoula en Judˇe Occidentale, Isra‘l.  Paris:  Mˇmoires et Travaux du Centre de Recherche Fran¨ais de Jerusalem, No 8, pp. 125-128. 

13. Lieberman D.E. (1994) The biological basis for seasonal increments in dental cementum and their application to archaeological research.  Journal of Archaeological Science 21: 525-539.

14. Yalcinkaya I, Leotard,J.M., Kartal M., Otte M., Bar-Yosef O., Caimi I., Gautier A., Gilto E., Goldberg P., Koslowski J., Lieberman D.E, Lopez-Bayon I., Pawlikowski M., Thiebault S., Ancion V., Patou M., Barbier A., Bonjean D. (1995) Les occupations tardiglaciares du site d'…kuzini (sud-ouest de la Turquie). Rˇsultats prˇliminaires.  L'Anthropologie 100: 562-585. 

15. Stutz A.J., Lieberman D.E., Spiess A. (1995) Tooth cementum and hunting economy from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in the Mosan Basin.  In M. Otte and L. G. Straus (eds.) Le Trou Magrite.  Li¸ge: ERAUL. pp. 167-187. 

16. Lieberman D.E. (1995) Cementum increment analyses of teeth from Wadi Hisma:   estimations of site seasonality.  In D. O. Henry (ed.)  The Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from southern Jordan.  New York: Plenum Press. pp. 391-398. 

17. Lieberman D.E. (1995) Testing hypotheses about recent human evolution from skulls:  Integrating morphology, function, development and phylogeny.  Current Anthropology 36: 159-197. 

18. Lieberman D.E., Wood B.A., Pilbeam  D.R. (1996) Homoplasy and early Homo: An analysis of the evolutionary relationships of H. habilis sensu stricto and H. rudolfensis.  Journal of Human Evolution 30: 97-120. 

19. Lieberman D.E. (1996) How and why recent humans grow thin skulls:  experimental data on systemic cortical robusticity.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101: 217-236. 

20. Lieberman D.E. (1997) Making behavioral and phylogenetic inferences from fossils:  considering the developmental influence of mechanical forces.  Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 185-210.

21. Lieberman, D.E. Churchill S.E.  (1998) Evoluzione del genere Homo.  Frontiere della Vita, Vol 1. W. Gilbert and G.T. Valenti (eds.) Rome:  Istituto del Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 283-298.

22. Lieberman D.E. (1998)  Natufian "sedentism" and the importance of biological data for estimating reduced mobility.  In T.R. Rocek and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.)  Seasonality and Sedentism: Archaeological perspectives from Old and New World sites.   Cambridge, MA:  Peabody Museum Bulletin, No 6, pp. 75-92. 

23. Lieberman D.E. (1998) Neanderthal and early modern human mobility patterns:  comparing archaeological and anatomical evidence.  In T. Akazawa, K. Aoki, and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.)  Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Western Asia.  New York:  Plenum Press. pp. 263-275. 

24. Lieberman D.E. Crompton A.W. (1998)  Responses of bone to stress.  In E. Wiebel, C.R. Taylor and L. Bolis (eds.) Principles of Biological Design:  The optimization and symmorphosis debate.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.  pp. 78-86. 

25. Lieberman D.E. (1998)  Sphenoid shortening and the evolution of modern human cranial shape.  Nature 393: 158-162. 

26. Lieberman D.E. (1999)  Homology and hominid phylogeny:  problems and potential solutions.  Evolutionary Anthropology  7: 142-151. 

27. Spoor F., Dean M.C., O'Higgins P., Lieberman D.E. (1999) Anterior sphenoid in modern humans.  Nature 397: 572. 

28. Lieberman D.E., McCarthy R.C. (1999) The ontogeny of basicranial angulation in humans and chimpanzees and its implications for reconstructing pharyngeal dimensions.  Journal of Human Evolution 36: 487-517.

29. Lieberman D.E. (2000)  Growth studies: Mammal teeth. In L. Ellis (ed.) Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia.  New York:  Garland Press. pp. 273-276. 

30. Lieberman D.E., Mowbray K.M., Pearson O.M.  (2000)  Basicranial influences on overall cranial shape.  Journal of Human Evolution  38: 291-315. 

31. Lieberman D.E. (2000)  Ontogeny, homology, and phylogeny in the Hominid craniofacial skeleton:  the problem of the browridge.  In P. O'Higgins and M. Cohn (eds.) Development, Growth and Evolution:  implications for the study of hominid skeletal evolution.  London:  Academic Press, pp. 85-122. 

32. Lieberman D.E., Crompton A.W. (2000) Why fuse the mandibular symphysis? A comparative analysis.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 112: 517-540. 

33. Lieberman D.E., Ross CR, Ravosa M.J. (2000) The primate cranial base:  ontogeny, function and integration.  Yearbook of Physical Anthropology  43: 117-169. 

34. Lieberman D.E., McCarthy R.C., Hiiemae K.M., Palmer J.B. (2000) Ontogeny of larynx and hyoid descent in humans:  implications for deglutition and vocalization.  Archives of Oral Biology 46: 117-128. 

35. Wood B.A., Lieberman D.E. (2001) Craniodental variation in Paranthropus boisei:  A developmental and functional perspective. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116: 13-25. 

36. McCarthy R.C., Lieberman D.E. (2001) The Posterior Maxillary (PM) plane and anterior cranial architecture in primates.  Anatomical Record 264: 247-260. 

37. Lieberman D.E., Pearson O.M.  (2001) Trade-off between modeling and remodeling responses to loading in the mammalian limb.  Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 156: 269-282.

38. Lieberman D.E., Devlin M. Pearson O.M. (2001) Articular surface area responses to mechanical loading:  effects of exercise, age and skeletal location. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116: 266-277

39. Lieberman D.E. (2001) Another face in our family tree.  Nature. 410: 419-420.

40. Lieberman D.E. (2001) Principles of biomechanics.  Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. www.els.net

41. Lieberman, D.E. (2001) The musculo-skeletal system.  Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. www.els.net

42. Lieberman D.E, McBratney B.M, Krovitz, G.E. (2002) The evolution and development of craniofacial form in Homo sapiens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99: 1134-1139. 

43. Hiiemae K. M, Palmer J.B., Medicis S.W., Hegener J, Jackson B.S., Lieberman D.E. (2002) Hyoid and tongue surface movements in speaking and eating.  Archives of Oral Biology 47: 11-27. 

44. McGrath J, El-Saadi O., Grim V., Cardy S., Chaple B., Chant D., Lieberman D.E., Mowry, B. (2002) Minor physical anomalies and quantitative measures of the head in psychosis. Archives of General Psychiatry. 59: 458-464.

45. Lieberman D.E. (2002) Whither human growth and development?  (Review) Evolutionary Anthropology 11: 246-248.

46. Lieberman D.E., Pearson O.M., Polk J.D., Demes B., Crompton A.W. (2003) Optimization of bone growth and remodeling in response tapered mammalian limbs Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 3125-38.

47. McBratney-Owen B.M., Lieberman, D.E.  (2003) Postnatal ontogeny of facial position in Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes.  In Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo.  Thompson J, Krovitz G, Nelson A, eds.  Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press. Pp. 45-72.

48. Lieberman D.E., McBratney B., Krovitz G.E. (2003) Cranial base flexion and H. erectus skulls. Science. 300: 249.  (letter)

49 Lieberman D.E., Polk J.D., Demes B. (2004) Predicting long bone loading from cross-sectional geometry American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123: 156-71.

50. Lieberman D.E., Krovitz G., Devlin M., Yates F., St. Clair M. (2004) Effects of food processing on masticatory strain and craniofacial growth in a retrognathic face.  Journal of Human Evolution 46: 655-677. 

51. Lieberman D.E., Krovitz G.E, McBratney-Owen B. (2004) Testing hypotheses about tinkering in the fossil record:  the case of the human skull.  Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 302B: 284-301.

52. Lieberman D.E. (2004) Humans and primates: new model organisms for evolutionary developmental biology. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 302B: 195.

53. Ratiu P., Talos I.F., Haker S., Lieberman D.E., Everett P. (2004) The tale of Phineas Gage, digitally remastered. Journal of Neurotrauma. 21:637-43

54. Bramble D.M., Lieberman D.E. (2004) Endurance Running and the Evolution of Homo.  Nature 432: 345-352. 

55. Pearson O.M., Lieberman D.E. (2004) The aging of ŅWolffÕs LawÓ: Ontogeny and responses to mechanical loading in cortical bone.  Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 47: 63-99.

56. Belfer-Cohen A., Davidzon A., Goring-Moris A.N., Lieberman D., Spiers M. (2004)  Nahal Ein Gev I: A late Upper Palaeolithic site by the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Palˇorient 30: 25-46.

57. Lieberman, D.E.  (2005) Sexual and geographic variation in the skull.  GrayÕs Anatomy, 39th Ed.  Edinburgh:  Elsevier.

58. Zollikofer C.P.E., Ponce de Le—n M.S, Lieberman D.E, Guy F., Pilbeam D., Likius A., Mackaye H. T., Vignaud P., Brunet, M. (2005) Virtual Cranial Reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Nature 434: 755-759

59. Brunet M., Guy F., Pilbeam D., Lieberman D.E, Vignaud P., Ponce de Le—n M.S, Zollikofer C.P.E., Likius A., Mackaye H. T. (2005) New material of the Earliest Hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad. Nature. 434:752-755

60. McGrath JJ, Keeping D, Saha S, Chant DC, Lieberman DE, O'Callaghan MJ. (2005) Seasonal fluctuations in birth weight and neonatal limb length; does prenatal vitamin D influence neonatal size and shape? Early Hum Dev. 81:609-18.

62. McIntyre MH, Ellison PT, Lieberman DE, Demerath E, Towne B. (2005) The development of sex differences in digital formula from infancy in the Fels Longitudinal Study. Proc Biol Sci. 272:1473-9.

63. Lieberman, Daniel E. Bar Yosef, O (2005) Apples and Oranges: Morphological versus Behavioral Transitions in the Pleistocene.  In Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution.  Lieberman DE, Smith RJ, Kelley J, eds. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.  Pp. 275-296. 

64. Lieberman, Daniel E. (2005) Further fossil finds from Flores.  Nature 437: 957-958.

65. Pontzer H, Lieberman DE, Momin E, Devlin MJ, Polk JD, Hallgrimsson B, Cooper DM. (2006) Trabecular bone in the bird knee responds with high sensitivity to changes in load orientation. J Exp Biol. 209:57-65

66. Lieberman DE., Raichlen DA. Pontzer H, Brambl D, Cutright-Smith E. (2006). The human gluteus maximus and its role in running. . J Exp Biol. 209:2143-2155

67. Crompton AW, Lieberman DE, Aboelela S (2006) Tooth Orientation during occlusion and the functional significance of condylar translation in primates and herbivores In Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles. Carrano MT., Gaudin TJ, Blob RW, Wible JR, eds. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, pp 367-388.

68. Lieberman DE, Bramble DM. (2007) The evolution of marathon running : capabilities in humans. Sports Med. 37:288-90.

69. Lieberman DE, Carlo J, Ponce de Leon M, Zollikofer CP (2007) A geometric morphometric analysis of heterochrony in the cranium of chimpanzees and bonobos. J Hum Evol. 52:647-62.

70 Devlin MJ, Lieberman DE (2007)  Variation in estradiol level affects cortical bone growth in response to mechanical loading in sheep. J Exp Biol. 210:602-13.

71. Hallgrimsson B, Lieberman, DE, Lie W, Ford-Hutchinson AF, Jirik FR (2007) Epigenetic interactions and the structure of phenotypic variation in the cranium. Evol Dev. 9:76-91.

72. Lieberman DE, Hall BK. (2007) The evolutionary developmental biology of tinkering: an introduction to the challenge. Novartis Found Symp. 284: 1-19.

73. Hallgrimsson B, Lieberman DE, Young NM, Parsons T, Wat S. (2007) Evolution of covariance in the mammalian skull. Novartis Found Symp. 284: 164-8.

74. Lieberman DE, Bramble DM, Raichlen DA, Shea JJ. (2007) The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: a reply to Pickering and Bunn  J Hum Evol. 53: 439-42.

75. Lieberman DE. (2007) Palaeoanthropology: homing in on early Homo. Nature. 449: 291-2.

76. Crompton AW, Barnet J, Lieberman DE, Owerkowicz T, Skinner J, Baudinette RV (2007) Control of jaw movements in two species of macropodines (Macropus eugenii and Macropus rufus). Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 

77. Whitcome KK, Shapiro LJ, Lieberman DE. (2007) Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins. Nature 450: 1075-8.