Eve Boyle

• PhD Student at George Washington University

The genus Homo, as currently known, includes several hominin taxa that span a time period from roughly 2.8 million years ago (Ma) to the present. Nearly all of these taxa possess feet that appear, at least superficially, anatomically similar to the feet of modern humans. They possess clear adaptations for terrestrial bipedalism, and the range of mo...

The debate regarding effective anatomy teaching methods is ongoing and highly controversial. Previously, Winkelmann(2007) attempted to address this discussion through a literature review that compared the efficacy of new anatomy laboratory pedagogies to traditional dissection approaches. This review, however, had considerable methodological weaknes...

While prior meta‐analyses in anatomy education have explored the effects of laboratory pedagogies and histology media on learner performance, the effects of student‐centered learning (SCL) and computer‐aided instruction (CAI) have not been broadly evaluated. This research sought to answer the question, “How effective are student‐centered pedagogies...

In primates and some other mammals, iliac flare, or the lateral expansion of the upper ilium relative to the lower ilium, appears to be greater in larger species (e.g., great apes) than in their smaller-bodied relatives. Several studies have shown that the primate upper iliac blade scales with positive allometry, but it is unclear how lower ilium w...

As the debate regarding anatomy education efficacy continues, student‐centered learning (SCL) and computer aided instruction (CAI) are garnering educators' attention. Although Freeman et al. (2014) demonstrated that active learning strategies increase student performance across STEM disciplines, summative analyses exploring how SCL and CAI affect k...

INTRODUCTION The debate regarding anatomy laboratory teaching approaches is ongoing and controversial. To date, the literature has yielded only speculative conclusions due to general methodological weaknesses and a lack of summative empirical evidence. Through a meta-analysis, this study compared the effectiveness of instructional laboratory approa...

Gut proportions (GP) are assumed to reflect both phylogeny and the type of diet a species is best adapted to digest. Though data suggest that humans are unique among hominoids in having a relatively large small intestine and a relatively small colon, there is no consensus on what this reveals about human dietary evolution. Conflicting interpretatio...

We briefly review the relationships of modern humans and the great apes before considering the evidence for and against Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus kadabba, Orrorin tugenensis, and Sahelanthropus tchadensis being the earliest members of the hominin clade. We then describe each of the well-established hominin taxa recognized in a speciose int...

In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple "ladder-like" interpretations of the hominin fossil record. We then look at the hominin fossil record in a series of time intervals and use current published evidence about the first and last appearance...

KNM-ER 5428 is a very large probable Homo erectus talus from ~1.6 Ma deposits at Koobi Fora, Kenya. Though preliminarily described in 1985, here we provide a more detailed anatomical description and comparison of KNM-ER 5428 with fossil hominin, modern human, and extant ape tali. KNM-ER 5428 is exceptionally large, with body mass estimates >90kg—ov...