Kimberly Congdon
Assistant Professor
Basic Sciences
Touro University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Congdon is now Assistant Professor of Department of Basic Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine in Touro University Nevada.
Research Interest
comparative functional morphology of locomotion.
Publications
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“Differential limb loading inminiature pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus): A test of chondral modeling theory.†Journal of Experimental Biology, 215: 1472-1483.
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“Interspecific and ontogenetic variation in great ape pedal phalangeal curvature.†International Journal of Primatology, 33: 418-427
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“Experimental approaches to musculoskeletal function in primates.†in A Companion to Paleoanthropology, ed.Begun,DR. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
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“Phalangeal Curvature†in The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, ed. Fuentes, A. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
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(2015) “Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa.†eLife, 4:e09560.
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(2015) “The foot of Homo naledi.†Nature Communications, 6.
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“Hold on loosely: Substrate orientation and digital grasping pressures in strepsirrhines.†Folia Primatologica.
