CURRICULUM
VITAE
Daniel
Eric Lieberman
Address:
Department
of Human Evolutionary Biology
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 Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Chair,
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Affiliate,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Curatorial
Board, Peabody Museum
Previous
Appointments:
2001-2009 Professor of Anthropology,
Harvard University
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:
Everett
Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard University, 2009
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.
Transitions
in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef (2009) Shea J. J., Lieberman D. E., eds.
Oxford: Oxbow Publications.
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, Bramble 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. 150:109-23
77. Whitcome KK, Shapiro LJ, Lieberman DE. (2007) Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins. Nature 450: 1075-8.
78. Stutz, A. and Lieberman, DE
(2007) Cementum increment analysis of ungulate teeth from the Kebara Cave
faunal assemblages: discriminating seasonal signals from their diagenetic
mimics. In Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel, Israel:
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archaeology. Bar-Yosef O, Meignen L., eds. Cambridge, MA: American School of
Prehistoric Research Bulletin (no 49), pp. 261-278.
79.
Lieberman DE, Hallgr’msson B, Liu W, Parsons
TE, Jamniczky HA. (2008) Spatial packing, cranial base angulation, and
craniofacial shape variation in the mammalian skull: testing a new model using
mice. J Anat. 212: 720-35
80.
Bastir M, Rosas A, Lieberman DE, O'Higgins P. (2008) Middle cranial fossa
anatomy and the origin of modern humans. Anatomical Record. 291: 130-40.
81.
Lieberman DE (2008) Speculations about the selective basis for modern
human craniofacial form. Evolutionary Anthropology 17: 55-68
82.
Hallgrimsson B, Lieberman D.E. (2008) Mouse models and the evolutionary
developmental biology of the skull. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48:
373-384
83.
Crompton AW, Barnet J, Lieberman DE, Owerkowicz T, Skinner J, Baudinette RV (2008)
Control of jaw movements in two species of macropodines (Macropus eugenii and Macropus rufus). Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology A:
Molecular & Integrative Physiology 150: 109-123
84.
Pontzer H, Holloway JH 3rd, Raichlen DA, Lieberman DE (2009) Control and
function of arm swing in human walking and running. J Exp Biol. 212: 523-34.
85.
Rolian CP, Lieberman DE, Hamill J, Scott JW, Werbel W (2009) Walking, running
and the evolution of short toes in humans. J. exp Biol. 212: 713-721.
86.
Lieberman DE, Bramble DM, Raichlen DA, Shea JJ (2009) Brains, brawn and the
evolution of human endurance running capabilities. In The First Humans:
Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo. Grine FE, Fleagle
JG, Leakey RE, eds. New York: Springer, pp. 77-98
87.
Lieberman DE, Pilbeam, DR, Wrangham RW (2009) The transition from Australopithecus to Homo.
In Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef Shea JJ, Lieberman DE, eds. Oxford: Oxbow Publications, pp. 1-22.
88.
Lieberman, DE (2009) Homo floresiensis from head to toe. Nature 459: 41-42.
89.
Devlin MJ, Stetter CM, Lin HM, Beck TJ, Legro RS, Petit MA, Lieberman DE, Lloyd
T. (2009) Peripubertal estrogen levels and physical activity affect femur
geometry in young adult women. Osteoporosis International