Susan M. Cachel
· Professor, SASRutgers University · Anthropology
Active 1975–2025
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Susan M. Cachel is a professor associated with the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. The provided page text does not include specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions. Therefore, no detailed biography information is available from the given content.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Library science
- Art
- Art history
- Aesthetics
- History
- Philosophy
- Epistemology
Selected publications
Anthropoid origins and adaptations
Evolution of Nervous Systems · 2025-04-22
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingUniversity of Hawaii Press eBooks · 2024
- Computer Science
- Computer Science
American Anthropologist · 2020
1st authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Art history
- History
Natural History Intelligence and Hominid Tool Behaviour
University of Calgary Press eBooks · 2018-10-10 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingEnergetics of the Nasal cavity: The impact of Total Energy Expenditure on Cranial Airway Morphology
The 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans · 2017-01-01
articleSenior authorBurial law impedes scientific discovery
Science · 2016-06-24 · 1 citations
letter1st authorCorrespondingThe News at a glance item “‘Ancient One’ to get Native American burial” (6 May, p. [632][1]) reports the reburial of the 9300-year-old skeletal remains of Kennewick Man after 2 decades of legal wrangling between Native American communities and scholars. The story does not address the
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2015-04-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingBecause anthropoids are higher primates, much research has focused on their origins. However, there are a number of factors that make anthropoid origins problematic. To begin with, there are a number of purported “first” specimens. Fossils from Burma (Myanmar), North Africa, and Germany have been advanced as the first anthropoids. This diverse material indicates that there are differences in opinion about the proto-anthropoids. Were they tarsiiform or adapiform primates? If they were tarsiiforms, were they close relatives of the living tarsiers or an extinct member of the tarsiiform omomyids? A concomitant consideration is this: what is the position of the tarsier lineage? Is it a sister group to the anthropoids, which would be reflected by sorting both tarsiers and anthropoids into the Suborder Haplorhini? Alternatively, did anthropoids arise from adapiform primates?
Introduction: primates in evolutionary time
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2015-04-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingA major goal of this book is to show that fossil primates (including fossil humans) fit within evolutionary patterns seen among other mammals. What is a mammal? Mammals are a class of animals. That is, they are technically arranged in the zoological Class Mammalia, which is formally characterized by a number of distinctive traits. With the exception of birds, most of the animals with which we are most familiar are mammals. There are about 5,000 living mammal species, although they comprise only about 5 percent of all known animal species. The term “crown species” is often used to refer to living species, in contrast to fossil species, because the living animals appear at the top or crown of an evolutionary tree. Mammals have a very ancient and complicated evolutionary history. Figure 1.1 presents a simplified version of this evolutionary past. A complete and continuous fossil record documents the transition from first reptiles to first mammals. Although a number of “mammal-like reptile” or proto-mammal groups independently evolved mammalian traits, the first creatures identified as true mammals emerge about 200 mya (million years ago). Living mammals occur in three main groups: the ancient monotreme mammals of Australasia, and the closely related placental and marsupial mammals, whose origins are much more recent.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2015-04-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingMajor climatic oscillations that are characteristic of the Pleistocene actually begin far earlier, in the Late Cenozoic. Seasonality becomes more pronounced. Temperature and precipitation are no longer equably distributed throughout the year. Aridity increases, and tree cover is lost in many places. Plants that use the C4 photosynthetic pathway (largely tropical grasses that can tolerate prolonged drought) spread very widely, heralding the shift to a “C4 world” (Cerling & Ehleringer, 2000). This cooler and drier global climate foreshadows the outright appearance of continental glaciation during the Pleistocene.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2015-04-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Oligocene epoch begins at 33.9 mya. Plate tectonic reconstructions demonstrate that, for the first time, the geography of the earth largely resembled that seen today. In particular, the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins had finally achieved a modern aspect (Figures 11.1 and 11.2). Discussions of anthropoid primate origins and dispersal (Chapter 12) center on these two ocean basins and sweepstakes or rafting events that cross these basins.
Frequent coauthors
- 9 shared
Eric Delson
Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont
- 9 shared
Lin Nai-Ru
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- 9 shared
Michael D. Petraglia
Smithsonian Institution
- 9 shared
John J. Shea
Stony Brook University
- 9 shared
Wang Wei
The University of Tokyo
- 9 shared
Daniel Cusimano
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- 9 shared
Kim Jongchan
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- 9 shared
Xueping Ji
Education
- 1976
Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Awards & honors
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…
- Plenary Session Member Prize, 75th Anniversary of the Americ…
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