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C. Loring Brace
Loring Brace is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and
Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Museum of Anthropology. His research
addresses issues of morphological variability between human populations. His
investigations focus on circumstances and dynamics involved in the development of
differences in human skeletal and dental dimensions, as well as the assessment of
adaptive aspects of human variation such as nose form and skin color. He has made a
point contrasting the aspects of human form that are under selective force control with
those that demonstrably are not, and has shown how the latter can be used to evaluate
populations relationships going back into the past where there are no direct historical
data. He is currently working on two major projects: 1 - The Origins of Native
Americans; 2 – The Emergence of "Modern" human morphology.
Selected publications
2000 The Raw and the Cooked: A Plio-/Pleistocene just so Story, or Sex, Food, and the
origin of the Pair-Bond. Social Science Information39(1): 17-27.
1999 An Anthropological Perspective on "Race" and Intelligence: the Non-clinal nature
of Human Cognitive Capabilities. Journal of Anthropological Research 55: 245-
264.
1999 The Peopling of the Americas: Anglo Stereotypes and Native American Realities.
General Anthropology 5(2): 1-7
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