Rachel Caspari, Ph.D

Anthropology

Anspach Hall 312C
(989) 774-2655
caspa1r@cmich.edu

 
 

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1991
M.A., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1987
B.A., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
 
 

Teaching Expertise

Human Evolution 
Race and Scientific Racism
Human Biological Variation

Human Osteology and Skeletal Biology

Forensic Anthropology
Physical Anthropology

 

Research Interests

 

Origin of modern humans

Upper Pleistocene paleoanthropology

Evolution of longevity
Relationship between race and epistemology in paleoanthropology

 

Selected Publications

Caspari, R. (2006) The Krapina Occipital Bones. Periodicum Biologorum 108(3): 299-307.

Caspari, R., and J. Radovcic (2006) A new reconstruciton of Krapina 5, a male Neandertal cranial vault from Krapina, Croatia.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130: 294-307.

Caspari, R. and T. Turner (2006) Ethics of Property and Biological anthropology. Anthropology News 47 (2): 27-28.

Caspari, R., and Wolpoff, M.H. (2006) Does Krapina reflect early Neandertal paleodemography? Periodicum Biologorum 108 (4): 425-432.

Caspari, R. and S-H Lee (2006)  Is human longevity a consequence of cultural change or modern human biology?  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129: 512-517.

Caspari, R. and M. H. Wolpoff (2006)  Origines et diversité.  L'évolution multirégionale de l'espèce humaine.  Krisis:  Revue d'Idées et de Débats.  Origine?  (ed. Alain de Benoist) 27: 117-128.

Caspari, R. and S-H Lee (2005)  Taxonomy and longevity.  Journal of Human Evolution 49: 646-649.

Caspari, R. and S-H Lee (2005)  Are OY ratios invariant?  Journal of Human Evolution 49: 654-659.

Caspari, R. (2005)  The suprainiac fossa:  The question of homology.  Anthropologie XLIII/2-3: 251-261.

Caspari, R. and S-H Lee (2004).  Older age becomes common late in human evolution.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:10895-10900.  (Subject of that issue's commentary by Rosenberg, K. (2004), Living longer:  Information revolution, population, expansion, and modern human origins.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:10847-10858.  An Editor's Choice for Science:  Hanson, B.  Ancient silver generations?  Science 305:312.

Caspari, R.  (2003).  From Types to Populations:  A Century of Race, Physical Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association.  American Anthropologist 105 (1): 63-74.

Caspari, R.  (2002).  Race, Ethnogenese et Significations de la Modernite.  In:  L. F. Rastier et S. Bouquet (eds.), Une introduction aux sciences de la culture.  Paris, Presses Universitaire de France, pp. 49-79.

 

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