Dean Falk

http://www.anthro.fsu.edu

Professor| Florida State University

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Faculty

http://www.anthro.fsu.edu

Professor, Florida State University

E-mail	dfalk@fsu.edu
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Interest/Specialty Areas	Paleoanthropology, primate behavior, evolution of the brain and cognition, origins of language and music
Geographic Area(s) of Expertise	Africa, Europe, Indonesia

Dean Falk is an American evolutionary anthropologist who splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), and Tallahassee, Florida where she is the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1976, she has taught anatomy and anthropology courses at various universities. Her research on the fossil record has taken her to museums in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Broadly speaking, her work focuses on the evolution of the human brain (paleoneurology) and the associated emergence of language, music, art, and science. Falk has published numerous scientific and popular books and articles, and has lectured extensively about evolution to both academic and public audiences.

Field of Study - Biological Anthropology with interests in:

Asperger Syndrome
Brain Evolution
Fossil Hominins
Origins of Language & Music