Stephanie A. Maiolino, PhD
STEPHANIE A. MAIOLINO, PHD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomical Sciences
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Education
2015, PhD, Physical Anthropology, Stony Brook University
Dissertation: Comparative Morphology of Primate Distal Phalanges: Implications for Early Primate Evolution and the Origins of the Primate Nail
2010, MA, Anthropology, Stony Brook University
2005, BS, Evolutionary Anthropology, Rutgers University
2005, BS, Computer Science, Rutgers University
Contact and CV
Dept. of Anatomical Sciences
Health Science Center, T8 (040)
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081
stephanie.maiolino@stonybrook.edu
Research Interests
- Mammalian hand & foot morphology
- Grasping & prehension
- Evolution of claws & nails
- Grooming "claws" in primates
- Primate origins and diversification
- Eocene primate palaeobiology
Teaching Interests
- Dissection-based gross anatomy
- Neuroanatomy
- Biological anthropology
- Comparative vertebrate anatomy
- Mammalogy
- Primate evolution