G. E. Kennedy

 

Education:

University of Southern California,
Department of Anthropology, B.A. 1960

University of California, Los Angeles,
Department of Anthropology, M.A. 1968

University of London, St. Thomas's Hospital,
Department of Anatomy, Ph.D. 1973.

Professional Experience:

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Anthropology,
Teaching Assistant, 1966-1968;
Lecturer, (Extension) 1969-1970

San Fernando Valley State College,
Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor, 1968-1970

University of London, Middlesex Hospital
Dept. of Anatomy, Demonstrator, 1970-1971

St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School,
Dept. of Anatomy, Demonstrator, 1971-1973

California State University, Northridge,
Department of Anthropology,
Assistant Professor, 1973-1976

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Anthropology,
Associate Professor, 1976-present.

University Affiliations:

African Studies Center

Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life [CEOSOL]

 

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 

1. Kennedy, G.E. 1971a. " Early Man in the East Rudolf Basin". Nature, 231:213. [editorial]

2. Kennedy, G.E. 1971b. "Confusion over Fossil Man". Nature, 232:294-295. [editorial]

3. Kennedy, G.E. 1972a. "More Early Hominids From East Rudolf". Nature, 237:250-251. [edtiorial]

4. Kennedy, G.E. 1972b. "Reply to Professor Tobias". Nature, 239:469 [editorial].

5. Kennedy, G.E. 1973. "More Questions than Answers at East Rudolf". Nature, 242:431.

6. Kennedy, G.E. 1974a. "Development of Hominid Locomotion", Nature, 251:9-10. [review article]

7. Kennedy, G.E. 1974b. "Ethiopian Fossil Hominids". Nature, 253:232-233. [editorial]

8. Kennedy, G.E. , 1974c, "The Reconstruction and Analysis of Wadjak II", American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 41:488 [abstract of orally delivered resarch paper].

9. Kennedy, G.E., 1974d, "Should Fossil Hominids Be Reclassified?". Nature, 248:635. [editorial]

10. Kennedy, G.E.,1975, "Early Man in the New World", Nature, 255:274-5. [review article].

11. Kennedy, G.E., 1976a, "Species Interactions and Macroevolution" by W. Bock, Abstracts in Human Evolution, 1: H101. [abstract].

12. Kennedy, G.E. 1976b, "Australopithecus Teeth Associated with Gigantopithecus", by G. Jian, Abstracts in Human Evolution, 1:I608. [abstract].

13. Kennedy, G.E. 1976c, "Biomechanics of the Hominid Hip", by H. McHenry, Abstracts in Human Evolution, 1:C501. [abstract].

14. Kennedy, G.E. 1976d. "Hominid Remains from Hadar, Ethiopia". Nature, 260:389. [editorial].

15. Kennedy, G.E. 1976e. "Rethinking Human Evolution" Nature, 264:507-508. [editorial].

16. Kennedy, G.E. 1977a. "Evolutionary Changes in the Hominine Femur", American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 47:142 [abstract of orally delivered research paper].

17. Kennedy, G.E. 1977b. "Lake Rudolf Basin", Nature, 266:799-800.

18. Kennedy, G.E. 1978, "Hominoid Habitat Shifts in the Miocene", Nature, 271:11-12. [review article].

19. Ike, D., J. Bada, P. Masters, Kennedy, G.E., and J. Vogel, 1979a, "Aspartic Acid Racemization and Radiocarbon Dating of an Early Milling Stone Horizon Burial in California", American Antiquity, 44:524-530. [research paper].

20. Kennedy, G.E. 1979b. "Difficulties in the Definition of New Hominid Species". Nature, 278:400-401. [editorial]

21. Kennedy, G.E. 1979c. "Reply to Johanson and White". Nature, 281:258. [editorial]

22. Kennedy, G.E. 1980. Paleoanthropology, McGraw Hill, New York, 479 pgs. [text book].

23. Kennedy, G.E. 1980. "The Emergence of Modern Man", Nature, 284:9-10. [review article].

24. Kennedy, G.E. 1981. "Macroevolution in the Hominoidea of the Early Miocene", The Perception of Evolution, L. Mai and E. Shankland, eds. Wenner-Gren, pgs. 113-131. [research paper].

25. Kennedy, G.E. 1982. "The Emergence of Homo sapiens: the Femoral Evidence", Congres International de Paleontologie Humaine, 1st Congres, Nice. [orally delivered research paper].

26. Kennedy, G.E. 1983a. "A Taxonomic and Morphometric Analysis of an Early Hominine Femur from the Lower Member, Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana", American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 61:429-436. [research paper].

27. Kennedy, G.E. 1983b. "Some Aspects of Femoral Morphology in Fossil and Recent Hominines", Journal of Human Evolution, 12:587-616. [research paper].

28. Kennedy, G.E. 1983c. "Maya Skeletal Remains from Sarteneja, Belize", The UCLA Excavations in Northern Belize, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. [research paper].

29. Kennedy, G.E. 1983d. "An Unusual Burial Practice in an Early California Indian", Journal of New World Archaeology, 5:4-6. [research paper].

30. Kennedy, G.E. 1984. "The Origin of Homo sapiens: The Post-Cranial Evidence", Man, 19:94-110. [research paper].

31. Kennedy, G.E. 1984. "Are The Kow Swamp Hominids Archaic?", American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 65:163-168. [research paper].

32. Kennedy, G.E. 1985. "Auditory Exostoses: Possible Dietary Implications", research paper delivered in an invited symposium, April, 15, 1985, Society for Southern California Archaeology, San Diego.

33. Kennedy, G.E. 1985. "Bone Thickness in Homo erectus" Journal of Human Evolution, 14:699-708. [research paper].

34. Kennedy, G.E. 1986. "The Relationship Between Auditory Exostoses and Cold Water: A Latitudinal Analysis". submitted to American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 71:401-416.[research paper]. 

35. Norconk, M., G. Kennedy and S. Gauld. 1987. "Patterns of Tabular and Diploic Bone Thickness in Relation to Cranial Deformation". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 72:236. [research paper, abstract].

36. Kennedy, G.E. 1988a. "The Evolution of Homo sapiens as Indicated by Features of the Post-Cranium". Invited lecture, 12th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Zagreb, July 30, 1988. [research paper]

37. Kennedy, G.E. 1988b. "The Search for Early Man in Somalia", Backdirt, pg 4,10. [research report].

38. Kennedy, G.E. 1989. "A Note on the Ontogenetic Age of the La Brea Hominid", Southern California Academy of Sciences, Bulletin. 88[3]126-127. [research paper].

39. Kennedy, G.E., S. Gauld and A. Nelson. 1990. "Bone Thickness in Fossil Hominids". in Fundamentals of Bone Growth: Methodology and Applications, A. Dixon, B. Sarnatt and D. Hoyte [eds]. CRC Press.

40. Brooks, S., G. Kennedy, R. Brooks, and J. Austen, 1990, "Analysis of the Haverty Skeletal Collection, A Presumed 'Early Man' Series from Los Angeles County, California", Journal of California and Great Basin World Archaeology, 12[1]60-83. [research paper].

41. Kennedy, G.E. 1991. "On the Autapomorphic Features of Homo erectus", Journal of Human Evolution, 20:375-412.

42. Kennedy, G.E. 1992. "The Evolution of Homo sapiens Indicated by the Post-Cranium". in Continuity or Replacement: Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution, G. Brauer and F. Smith [eds]. AA Balkema, Rotterdam.

43. Kennedy, G.E. 1993. "Locomotion and Human Evolution", invited lecture, John Napier Memorial Symposium, sponsored by the Royal Society. [research report].

44. Kennedy, G.E. 1994. "Homo habilis: Another View", invited lecture, Society for Human Biology, London, June, 1994. [research report]

45. Kennedy, G.E. 1995. "Use of Cladistic Analysis in Hominid Evolutionary Studies", invited lecture, American Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, [research report]. 46. Kennedy, G.E.1999. Is "Homo rudolfensis" a valid Species? Journal of Human Evolution 36:119-121. [research report]

47. Kennedy, G.E. 2001. The 3,000-year History of Conjoined Twins. Western J of Medicine.175:176. [research report]

48. Kennedy, G.E. and Faumuina, N. 2001. KMH2 and the Comparative Morphology of the Hyoid Bone. Am J Phys Anthropol Suppl. [Abs of oral paper: research report.]

49. Kennedy, G.E. submitted. Paleolithic Grandmothers? Life History Theory and Early Homo. J Roy Anthropol Inst.

50. Kennedy, G.E. sumitted. Neuroplasticity: Vicariant Habitats and the Evolution of the Hominin Brain. Hum Evol.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Kennedy, G.E. 1972. Journal of Human Evolution, Nature, 238:55-56.

2. Kennedy, G.E. 1975. Leakey's Luck, by Sonia Cole, Nature, 258:271.

3. Kennedy, G.E. 1975. By The Evidence, by L. Leakey, Nature, 258:271.

4. Kennedy, G.E. 1977, Earliest Man and Environments in the East Rudolf Basin, Nature, 266:799-800.

5. Kennedy, G.E. 1978, Guide to Fossil Man, by M. Day, Nature, 272:651-652.

6. Kennedy, G.E. 1979, Early Hominids of Africa, C. Jolly, [ed], Nature, 278:801.

7. Kennedy, G.E. 1980. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Nature, 288:41-42.

8. Kennedy, G.E. 1984. Man the Tottering Biped by P. Tobias, Archaeology in Oceania, 19[3]127.

9. Kennedy, G.E. 1985. The Origins of Modern Humans, F. Smith and F. Spencer [eds], American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 66:455-456.

10. Kennedy, G.E. 1986. Ancestors. The Hard Evidence, E. Delson,[ed]. Alan R. Liss. N.Y. 71:251-252.

11. Kennedy, G.E. 1989. Humankind Emerging, by Bernard Campbell, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 80:496.

12. Kennedy, G.E. 1989. Human Evolution by C. L. Brace, American Journal of Physical, 80:499

13. Kennedy, G.E. 1990a. Human Origins. John Durant [ed]. Man, 25[3]534.

14. Kennedy, G.E. 1990b. Discover Science. Bookwatch Reviews, 3[9]3-4.

15. Kennedy, G.E. 2000. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology. A.C. Aufderheide and C.Rodriguez-Martin. Amer Anthropol 102:171-172.