| AWARDS  Prithijit
Chatrath was awarded the Morris
F. Skinner Award for outstanding and sustained contributions
to scientific knowledge through the making of important collections
of fossil vertebrates in 2003 by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Dr. Elwyn L. Simons was made a Fellow in the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in 2006.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Simons
EL, Seiffert ER, Ryan TM, and Attia Y. (2007) A
remarkable female cranium
of the early Oligocene anthropoid Aegyptopithecus zeuxis (Catarrhini,
Propliopithecidae). PNAS 104:8731-6.
DeBlieux
DD, Baumrind MR, Simons EL, Chatrath PS, Meyer GE, and Attia Y.
(2006) Sexual
dimorphism of the internal mandibular chamber in Fayum
Pliohyracidae (mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26:160-169.
Simons
EL. (2005) Eocene
and Oligocene mammals of the Fayum, Egypt. First
International Conference on the Geology of the Tethys, Cairo, Egypt,
439-450.
Seiffert
ER, Simons EL, Clyde WC, Rossie JB, Attia Y, Bown TM, Chatrath PS,
Mathison ME. (2005) Basal
anthropoids from Egypt and the antiquity of Africa’s higher primate
radiation. Science 310:300-304.
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