简介

Dr. Susman's research focuses on early hominins and understanding behavioral pathways in human evolution. Two important innovations took place in the early hominin career. Six million years ago evidence of bipedalism appears in the fossil record. Later, around 2.5 mya, durable artifacts appear followed shortly by fossil evidence of tool behavior. To understand these key events we exploit the extensive and growing fossil record of early hominin evolution and we investigate the comparative and functional morphology of apes and humans and the ecology and behavior of African apes.