About Me
Current position
| PhD Student, Department of Archaeology,
University of Liverpool, UK Project Supervisors: Dr A. G. M. Sinclair and Dr Susanne Shultz Project title: The length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) and its relationship
This study is linked to Lucy to Language; The Archaeology of the Social Brain |
| 1998 | B.Sc. Evolutionary Anthropology (First Class). University of Liverpool, UK | |
| Birth in mechanisms in Australopithecines | ||
| A triumph for New Labour? Birth mechanisms in A. afarensis |
| 2000 | M.Phil. University of Liverpool, UK | |
| Costing movement on a variable landscape |
| Awards | ||
| 2007 |
British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
Small Research Project
Grant Award
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| 2008 | Jane Moore Prize awarded by the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, University of Oxford | |
| Collaborators | ||
| Dr Susanne Shultz | School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK | |
| Dr Melissa Gerald | Caribbean Primate Research Centre, Puerto Rico, USA | |
| Dr Elaine Videan | Alamogordo Primate Facility, New Mexico, USA | |
| Christy L Hoffman | Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago | |
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Teaching |
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| An introduction to hominin palaeontology |
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Sinclair, A.G.M., McCraith, L. and Nelson, E. 2003. Understanding hominin landscapes at Makapansgat, South Africa. In Michell, P., Haour, A. and Hobart. J. (Eds) Researching Africa's Past. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph No. 57: Oxbow books Pages 11 - 24. |
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| Nelson, E.C. and Manning J.T. 2005. The length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) and its relationship to primate mating strategies and the evolution of human sociality [Abstract]. Primate Eye, 87:29 ISSN 0305-8417. | |
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Nelson, E.C. and Manning J.T. 2006. The length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) and its relationship to primate mating systems and human social evolution; preliminary results. African Genesis: A symposium on hominid evolution in Africa. Eds: Reynolds, S., Menter, C.G., Robinson,M.S. and Hemmingway. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa:79 ISBN 0-620-35737-1. |
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| Abstract | |
| Nelson, E, Manning, J & Sinclair A 2006. Using the length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) to sex cave art hand stencils: factors to consider. Before Farming [online version] 2006/1 article 6: 1-7 | |
| Burriss, R.P., Little, A.C. and Nelson, E.C. 2006. 2D:4D ratio and its relationship with sexually dimorphic facial characteristics and perceived dominance. Archives of Sexual Behaviour. DOI 1007/s10508-006-9136-1. | |
| Nelson, E.C. and Shultz, S. 2007. Using the length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) to investigate the influence of prenatal sex hormones on non-human primate mating systems and human social evolution [Abstract]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 132:177. | |
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Nelson, E. C. and Shultz, S. 2008. Evidence from finger length ratios (2D:4D) of prenatal androgen effects associated with selection for canine size, but not body size in anthropoids [Abstract]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 46:160 |
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Nelson, E. C. and Shultz, S. 2008. Finger length ratios (2D:4D) and programming of intra-sexual competitive behaviours in anthropoids [Abstract]. Primate Eye, 94:16 ISSN 0305-8417 |
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| Publications in preparation or in review | |
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Nelson, E.C. and Shultz, S. Finger length ratios (2D:4D) and social systems in anthropoids. |
In review |
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Nelson, E.C. Using the length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) to elucidate fossil hominoid mating systems. |
In preparation |
| Nelson, E.C. Videan, E. and Shultz, S. The length of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D:4D), testes size and dominance in a group of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). | In preparation |
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Nelson, E.C., Gerald, M., Hoffman, C. and Maestripieri, D. Finger length ratios (2D:4D) and 'inheritance' of dominance rank in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). |
In preparation |
| Nelson, E.C., Voracek, M. and Gerald, M. Heritability of 2D:4D in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) from Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. | In preparation |
| Nelson, E.C., Shultz, S. and Dunbar, R.I.M. Finger length ratios (2D:4D) correlate with EQ in non-human anthropoids. | In preparation |
| Curriculum Vitae | |
| Affiliations | |
| Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain | |
| Primate Society of Great Britain | |
| British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) | |
| The Paleoanthropology Society | |
| American Association of Physical Anthropologists | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology | |
| British Federation of Women Graduates | |