A paleoanthropologist, Bromage, Ph.D., is director of the Hard Tissue Research Unit. His research focuses on human evolution and growth and development, with emphasis on the biology of bones and teeth as windows into life history. Bromage conducts fieldwork principally in Malawi, where he examines both modern and early human dental and skeletal development to draw inferences concerning relationships between human biology and the environment. He has recently discovered a new biological clock while observing incremental growth lines in tooth enamel, hypothesized to regulate many metabolic functions.

Bromage is the coeditor of “African Biogeography: Climate Change and Early Hominid Evolution” and has been honored for his research by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Max Planck Prize in recognition of his achievements in the research on the microanatomical structure of ancestral human teeth and bones. A photo of Bromage is available at www.usd.edu/press/news/images/releases/Bromage.jpg.

This Visiting Scholar Lecture is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Alpha Chapter of South Dakota Phi Beta Kappa, the Department of History, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Biology. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program offers undergraduates the opportunity to associate with some of America’s most distinguished scholars and contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by exchanging ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students.

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