Dean Falk

Dean Falk ( born June 25, 1944) is an American anthropologist specializing in development of the brain and perception in primates. Falk teaches anthropology at Florida State University.

After the discovery of skeletal remains of a 17,000 year old people on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, these findings were described as a new type of Hominini, as Homo floresiensis. Falk supported this establishment in the year 2005. 2007 rejected it after by casts of the interior of the skull of the fossil LB1 that Homo floresiensis is probably a close relative of Homo erectus and not an example of the microcephaly of a modern human (Homo sapiens).

Works (selection)

  • External Neuroanatomy of Old World Monkeys ( Cercophitecoidae ). In: Contributions to Primatology. vol 15, pp. 1-95, 1978, Karger, Basel
  • With Este Armstrong Editor: Primate Brain Evolution: Methods and Concepts. Plenum Publishing Co., New York 1982, ISBN 0-306-40914-3.
  • Evolution of the Brain and Cognition in Hominids. The sixty -second James Arthur Lecture. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1992.
  • Braindance or why chimps can not sew: the evolution of the human brain. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-7643-2926-2.
  • J. Keenan, in collaboration with G. Gallup and Dean Falk: The Face in the Mirror: Looking for the origin of consciousness. E. Reinhardt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-497-01781-7.
  • As humanity was discussed. Mothers, children and the origin of speech. from the English by Susanne Kuhlmann- war German publishing house, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-421-04327-6.
  • The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution. University of California Press, 2011 ( Kindle Edition)
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