Trenton Holliday is a paleoanthropologist who was involved in the discovery of Homo naledi, found in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa in 2015. Holliday, along with his team, analyzed the body size and proportions of the fossil.
Holliday is a professor and Anthropology Department Chair at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches human evolution, function morphology, and modern human adaptation and variation. He studies the origins of Homo sapiens, origin of the genus Homo, the fate of the Neanderthals, hybridization among extant mammals, and late Australopithecus.
Holliday got his B.A. in anthropology from Louisiana State University (1988) and M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) in anthropology in the University of New Mexico.
Selected publications
+Publication dateName of publicationJuly 2023Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of EuropeSeptember 2015Homo Naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South AfricaAugust 2014Craniofacial Feminization, social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral ModernityApril 2013The Upper Limb of Australopithecus sedibaDecember 2012Body Size, Body Shape, and the Circumscription of the Genus HomoNovember 2009Body proportions of circumpolar people as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island InuitJanuary 2008Evolution at the Crossroads: Modern Human Emergence in Western AsiaDecember 2003Species Concepts, Reticulation, and Human EvolutionDecember 2003The Origin of Modern Human BehaviorAugust 2002Neandertal cold adaptation: Physiological and energetic factors August 2001Relative variation in human proximal and distal limb segment lengthsAugust/October 2000Activity, Climate, and Postcranial RobusticityMay 1999Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humansDecember 1998Ecogeographical patterning and stature prediction in fossil hominids: Comment on M.R. Feldesman and R.L. Fountain, American Journal of Physical Anthropology December 1998Postcranial evidence of cold adaptation in European NeandertalsMay 1997Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human originsMay 1997Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene HomoSeptember 1996Morphological affinities of the proximal ulna from Classes River main site: archaic or modern?August 1995Lower limb length of European early modern humans in relation to mobility and climate
References
External links Trenton Holliday on ResearchGate