John Kappelman
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C 3200
Austin, Texas 78712, USA

John Kappelman is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He grew up on a family farm in southwestern Idaho and holds a joint Ph.D. in Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University and a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University. The primary focus of his research is hominoid evolution and human origins and evolution, with particular emphasis in paleoecology and functional morphology, and stratigraphy and paleomagnetism. He has participated in field work in many parts of Africa and Asia and currently conducts field projects in Ethiopia and Java. His favorite web site is www.eSkeletons.org.