Susanne Cote

Susanne Cote is currently a PhD student in the Biological Anthropology Department at Harvard University. Her research interests include the evolution of catarrhine primates, East African Miocene faunas, mammalian paleoecology (especially ruminants), and the origins of the modern African hominids (chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans). The focus of her dissertation research is to study catarrhine species differences between contemporaneous Early Miocene East African fossil localities with the goal of understanding the roles that habitat change and sampling may play in shaping these assemblages. Susanne has done paleontological fieldwork at Olorgesailie, the Lake Turkana Basin, and Baringo in Kenya and at Napak at Moroto in Uganda.