Curriculum Vitae - B. Holly Smith

CURRICULUM VITAE

B. Holly Smith

Associate Research Scientist

Department of Anthropology

420 West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Telephone: 734- 764- 0485 (secretary)

Fax: 734- 763- 7783

E-mail: bhsmith@umich.edu

Education

B.A. University of Texas, Austin, 1975 (Anthropology)

M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976 (Anthropology)

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983 (Anthropology)

Employment

Research Assistant (1978-83) and Research Investigator (1983-84) in the Center for Human Growth and Development, the University of Michigan (with Stanley M. Garn).

Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, academic year 1984-85.

Assistant Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, 1983-88; appointed also in the Department of Anthropology 1988.

Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology 1989-present.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow for Statistics 402, “Statistics and Data Analysis,” The University of Michigan, two terms 1976-77.

Teaching Fellow for Anthropology 131, “Introduction to Biological Anthropology,” The University of Michigan, three terms, 1977-78.

Anthropology 101, “Human Origins and Development of Culture,” Arizona State University, two terms, 1984-85.

Anthropology 452, “Dental Anthropology,” Arizona State University, 1984.

Anthropology 591, “Primate Evolution,” Arizona State University, 1985.

Visiting lecturer in Occlusion 523, “Development of Occlusion,” University of Michigan Dental School, 1991-94.

Dissertation

1983 Dental Attrition in Hunter-Gatherers and Agriculturalists. 284 pp. Chairman: C. Loring Brace.

Professional Memberships

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Dental Anthropology Association

Professional Service

Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1987-92

Secretary-Treasurer, Dental Anthropology Association 1988-90

Associate Editor, Journal of Human Evolution 1990-93

Advisory panel member, National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological,
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1990-92

Student Prize Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, 1993

Associate Editor, Evolutionary Anthropology 1995-97

Forensic work

Expert opinion for the Office of the Siskiyou County Public Defender, California, March, 1992 (using dental development to determine if the accused was a juvenile or adult at the time the crime was committed)

Graduate Students

Co-Chair for:

Kari L. Brandt, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1996)

Committee member for:

Alice Hauessler, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University (Ms. 1985)

Argyro Polychronopoulos, University of Michigan School of Dentistry (Ms. 1989)

Robert L. Tompkins, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico (Ph.D. 1991)

Tracey L. Crummett, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1994)

Field and Museum Work

Member, University of Michigan paleontological expedition to the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming directed by Philip D. Gingerich, summer 1976-77, and 1982-90.

Member, Duke University paleontological expedition to the Fayum, Egypt directed by Elwyn L. Simons, fall 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991.

Dental research on U.S. human skeletal collections 1979-80: Arizona State University, Smithsonian Institution, University of Alabama.

Dental research on European human skeletal collections 1980, 1985: British Museum of Natural History, Duckworth Laboratory at Cambridge University, Musée de l'Homme, Institut Paleontologie Humaine, University of Edinburgh, University of Copenhagen.

Dental research on African fossil hominids 1985: Kenya National Museums, Transvaal Museum, University of the Witwatersrand.

Dental research on fossil and modern anthropoids 1985-89: British Museum of Natural History, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Kenya National Museums, Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Université de Poitiers, University of Washington.

Dental research on radiographic collections 1989: great apes (British Museum of Natural History) and macaques (University of Washington).

Dental research on human dental development at Spitalfields 2005: Natural History Museum, London

Dental research on Tai forest chimpanzee collection; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: November 2006 and August 2007.

Invited Lectures

U. S.

Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology; February, 1986.

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine; October, 1987.

University of Washington, Department of Anthropology, Seattle; March, 1989.

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine; June, 1989.

Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology; March, 1990.

University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, Tucson; March, 1990.

Washington University, Department of Anthropology, St. Louis, February 2, 1993.

Duke University, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Durham; February 4, 1994.

University of Michigan, Learning in Retirement Distinguished Lecturer Series; September, 1997

University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, September, 1998

Overseas

Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Wenner Gren conference “Behaviour of the Earliest Hominids,” Stockholm, March, 1988.

University College London, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology; November, 1988.

Computense University Madrid, conference “La Vida en la Prehistoria: La Paleobiologia de Nuestros Antepasados,” organized by L. Aiello and J. L. Arsuaga. San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, August 10-14, 1998.

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Dental Tissues Workshop, Leipzig, Germany, September 20-23, 2006.

Published Abstracts

1980 Gingerich, P. D., B. H. Smith and K. Rosenberg. Patterns of allometric scaling in the primate dentition and prediction of body size from tooth size. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 52(2):231-232 (abstract).

1980 Smith, B. H., S. M. Garn, P. E. Cole and R. H. Osborne. Problems of sampling and inference in “fluctuating dental asymmetry.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 52(2):280-281 (abstract).

1981 Smith, B. H. Cultural correlations with occlusal wear plane differences. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54(2):279 (abstract).

1982 Smith, B. H. Is there a human pattern of tooth wear? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58(2):229 (abstract).

1983 Smith, B. H. Dental Attrition in Hunter-Gatherers and Agriculturalists. Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, Dissertation Abstracts International 44(2).

1983 Smith, B. H. Hominid attrition and occlusion at third molars: understanding the helicoidal plane. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60(2):255 (abstract).

1984 Smith, B. H. Rates of molar wear: implications for developmental timing and demography in human evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 63(2):220 (abstract).

1987 Gingerich, P. D. and B. H. Smith. Early Homo from Member 1, Swartkrans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 72(2):203-204 (abstract).

1987 Smith, B. H. Dental development in fossil hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 72(2):255 (abstract).

1988 Smith, B. H. New evidence on dental development in Pan troglodytes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75(2):272 (abstract).

1989 Smith, B. H. Dental development as a measure of life history in primates and in hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78(2):304 (abstract).

1990 Smith, B. H. KNM-WT 15000 and the life history of Homo erectus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):296 (abstract).

1990 Gingerich, P. D. and B. H. Smith. Forelimb and hand of Basilosaurus isis (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the middle Eocene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10 (suppl. 3):24A (abstract).

1991 Smith, B. H. Age of weaning approximates age of emergence of first permanent molar in nonhuman primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology suppl. 12:163-164 (abstract).

1992 Smith, B. H. Human growth and development in the fossil record. Amercan Journal of Physical Anthropology suppl. 14:152-153 (abstract).

1992 Smith, B. H. Sequence of tooth eruption in primates and other mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(3):52A (abstract).

1993 Smith, B. H. Rate and pattern in development: perspective from primate life history. American Journal of Physical Anthropology suppl. 16:182 (abstract).

1994 Smith, B. H. and B. Bogin. The evolution of life cycle and life span. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, suppl. 18:182 (abstract).

1995 Smith, B. H., K. L. Brandt and R. L. Tompkins. Developmental age of the KNM-WT 15000 Homo erectus in broad perspective. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, suppl. 20:196-197 (abstract).

1999 Brandt, K. L., and B. H. Smith. The depth of dentin exposure and diet. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (abstract). 108 (S28).

2006 Smith, B. H. Signal and variation in life-history data. Dental Tissues Workshop: 2-D and 3-D insights into human evolution. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, p, 30.

Articles

1979 Rose, K. D. and B. H. Smith. Dental anomaly in the early Eocene condylarth Ectocion. Journal of Paleontology 53(3):756-760.

1979 Garn, S. M., P. E. Cole and B. H. Smith. The effect of sample size on crown size asymmetry. Journal of Dental Research 58(10):2012.

1980 Garn, S. M., B. H. Smith and P. E. Cole. Correlations between root length and face size. Journal of Dental Research 59(2):141.

1980 Garn, S. M. and B. H. Smith. Developmental communalities in tooth emergence timing. Journal of Dental Research 59(7):1178.

1980 Garn, S. M. and B. H. Smith. A mandibular-maxillary precedence field in tooth emergence timing. Journal of Dental Research 59(9):1525.

1980 Garn, S. M. and B. H. Smith. Patterned asymmetry in tooth emergence timing. Journal of Dental Research 59(9):1526-1527.

1980 Garn, S. M. and B. H. Smith. Eruption sequence similarities in the maxilla and mandible. Journal of Dental Research 59(9):1534.

1981 Garn, S. M., B. H. Smith and R. E. Moyers. Structured (patterned) dimensional and developmental dental asymmetry. Proceedings of the Finnish Dental Society 77:33-36.

1981 Brace, C. L., A. S. Ryan and B. H. Smith. Comment on: Tooth wear in La Ferrassie Man, by P. F. Puech. Current Anthropology 22(4):424-430.

1982 Gingerich, P. D., B. H. Smith and K. Rosenberg. Allometric scaling in the dentition of primates and prediction of body weight from tooth size in fossils. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58(1):81-100.

1982 Smith, B. H., S. M. Garn and P. E. Cole. Problems of sampling and inference in the study of fluctuating dental asymmetry. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58(2):281-289.

1984 Smith, B. H. Patterns of molar wear in hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 63(1):39-56.

1984 Garn, S. M., B. H. Smith and M. LaVelle. Applications of pattern profile analysis to malformations of the head and face. Radiology 150:683-690.

1985 Gingerich, P. D. and B. H. Smith. Allometric scaling in the dentition of primates and insectivores. In: W. L. Jungers (ed.) Size and Scaling in Primate Biology. New York: Plenum, pp. 257-272.

1985 Garn, S. M., M. LaVelle and B. H. Smith. Quantification of dysmorphogenesis: pattern variability index. American Journal of Roentgenology 144:365-369.

1986 Smith, B. H. Development and evolution of the helicoidal plane of dental occlusion. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69(1)21-35.

1986 Smith, B. H., S. M. Garn and W. S. Hunter. Secular trends in face size. Angle Orthodontist 56(3):196-204.

Translated and reprinted in 1991 as: Säkulare Trends der Gesichtsdimensionen. Orthodontie und Kieferorthopädie 23:153-161.

1986 Smith, B. H. Dental development in Australopithecus and early Homo. Nature 323:327-330.

1987 Smith, B. H. Reply to: Maturational patterns in early hominids, by A. E. Mann, M. Lampl, and J. Monge. Nature 328:674-675.

1987 Smith, B. H. and S. M. Garn. Polymorphisms in eruption sequence of permanent teeth of American children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74(3):289-303.

1989 Smith, B. H. Dental development as a measure of life history in primates. Evolution 43(3):683-688.

1989 Smith, B. H. Growth and development and its significance for early hominid behaviour. Ossa 14:63-96.

1990 Smith, B. H. The cost of a large brain [Comment on: Brain evolution in Homo: the “radiator” theory, by Dean Falk]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13(2):365.

1990 Smith, B. H. Review of: Evolutionary History of the “Robust” Australopithecines, edited by F. L. Grine. Quarterly Review of Biology 65(2):215.

1990 Gingerich, P. D., B. H. Smith and E. L. Simons. Hind limbs of Eocene Basilosaurus: evidence of feet in whales. Science 249:154-157.

1991 Smith, B. H. Standards of human tooth formation and dental age assessment. In: M. A. Kelley and C. S. Larsen (eds.) Advances in Dental Anthropology. New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 143-168.

1991 Smith, B. H. Dental development and the evolution of life history in Hominidae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 86(2):157-174.

1992 Smith, B. H. Life history and the evolution of human maturation. Evolutionary Anthropology 1(4):134-142.

1993 Smith, B. H. The physiological age of KNM-WT 15000. In: A. Walker and R. Leakey (eds.) The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 195-220.

1994 Smith, B. H. Sequence of emergence of the permanent teeth in Macaca, Pan, Homo, and Australopithecus: Its evolutionary significance. American Journal of Human Biology, 6(1):61-76.

1994 Smith, B. H. Patterns of dental development in Homo compared to Australopithecus, Pan, and Gorilla. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94(3):307-325.

1994 Smith, B. H., T. L. Crummett and K. L. Brandt. Ages of eruption of primate teeth: A compendium for aging individuals and comparing life histories. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 37:177-231.

1995 Smith, R. J., P. J. Gannon and B. H. Smith. Ontogeny of australopithecines and early Homo: Evidence from cranial capacity and dental eruption. Journal of Human Evolution 29:155-168.

1995 Smith, B. H. and R. L. Tompkins. Toward a life history of the Hominidae. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:257-79.

1996 Bogin B., and B. H. Smith. The evolution of the human life cycle. American Journal of Human Biology 8:703-716.

1998 Smith, B. H. Review of: The Evolving Female: A Life-History Perspective, edited by M. E. Morbeck, A. Galloway, and A. L. Zihlman. American Scientist 86:382-383.

1999 Smith, B. H. Comment on "The raw and the stolen: Cooking and the ecology of human origins," by R. W. Wrangham, J. H. Jones, G. Laden, D. Pilbeam, and N. Conklin-Brittain. Current Anthropology 40(5):000.

2000 Smith, B. H. “Schultz’s Rule” and the evolution of tooth replacement patterns in primates and ungulates. In: Development, Function and Evolution of Teeth. M. Teaford, Meredith Smith, and Ferguson (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-227.

2000 Bogin, B., and B. H. Smith. Evolution of the human life cycle. In: Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective, S. Stinson, B. Bogin, R. Huss-Ashmore, and D. O’Rourke (eds.) New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 377-424.

2005 Smith, B. H. The paleontology of growth and development. Review of Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo, edited by J. L. Thompson, G. E. Krovitz, and A. J. Nelson. Evolutionary Anthropology.

2007 Koenigswald, W. V., Smith, B. H., and T. Keller. Supermunerary teeth in a subadult rhino mandible (Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis) from the middle Pleistocene of Mosbach in Wiesbaden (Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(4):416-428.

In Press

Dean, M. C. and B. H. Smith. Growth and development in the Nariokotome youth, KNM-WT 15000. In: The First Humans: Origin of the Genus Homo, F. E. Grine, J. G. Fleagle, and R. F. Leakey (eds.). New York: Springer.

Last update: 6/11/2008