About Kaye's ResearchI use principles of community ecology to understand diversity and biogeography of primates and mammals across continentals and in various regions within continents. I identify and analyze mammalian fauna from Plio-Pleistocene hominin localities in Africa to understand community structure of primates, including hominins, through time and across space. I also reconstruct the habitats of fossil hominins through the understanding of the species in each assemblage and how they were adapted to their surroundings. My current field research is focused on the appearance of the genus Homo, and the disappearance of Australopithecus afarensis in the lower Awash Valley in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, and understanding the behavioral ecology of hominins that used bifacial technology in the Pleistocene of South Africa. |
Education |
I received my B.S. from Portland State University, Portland, OR in 1989, and my PhD from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY in 1996. I started as a Postdoctoral Scholar for the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, CA in 1996, and moved to Arizona State University in 1997, where I have been ever since.
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Random Facts |
I have five grandchildren. I love Africa.
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