Christopher Walker
Asst Professor
American Association of Veterinary Anatomists
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
CVM Main Building D259
Bio
I am an anatomist and biological anthropologist with interests in hominin paleontology, growth & development, functional morphology of the postcranial skeleton, mobility, and anatomical variation. The primary goal of my research is to elucidate the adaptive significance of changes to locomotor anatomy during hominin evolution. In other words, I seek to understand how hominins moved throughout their environment and what prompted shifts in their bony anatomy. My primary area of teaching expertise is in mammalian anatomy (including gross anatomy, osteology, and functional morphology).
Education
PhD Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University
MPhil Biological Anthropological Science University of Cambridge
BA Biological Anthropology University of California
Area(s) of Expertise
GLOBAL HEALTH
Publications
- Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment , NATURE NEUROSCIENCE (2022)
- Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society , SCIENCE ADVANCES (2022)
- The immature Homo naledi ilium from the Lesedi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2022)
- Evaluating bony predictors of bite force across the order Carnivora , JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY (2021)
- Internal structural properties of the humeral diaphyses in an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China , QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL (2021)
- Sociality predicts individual variation in the immunity of free-ranging rhesus macaques , PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR (2021)
- Effect of Poly(vinyl butyral) Comonomer Sequence on Adhesion to Amorphous Silica: A Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Study , ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES (2020)
- Extending the fused-sphere SAFT-gamma Mie force field parameterization approach to poly(vinyl butyral) copolymers , JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS (2020)
- Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY (2020)
- Development of a fused-sphere SAFT-gamma Mie force field for poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(ethylene) , JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS (2019)