T R Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 54950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T R Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | T R |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8615-442X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
With Thanks
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
In Memory of Judith Masters and Fabien Génin
Heavy metal ecotoxicology of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) across field sites in South Africa
Data sharing in biological anthropology: Guiding principles and best practices
In 2017 the AAPA established an ad hoc committee on data access and data sharing; committee members were Trudy Turner (Chair), Connie Mulligan (Co-Chair), Doug Boyer, Eric Delson, and William Leonard. With support from a NSF grant to the association, the committee led a workshop on data sharing in biological anthropology on February 8–9, 2019 in Milwaukee, WI. Forty participants representing all aspects of the field were able to reach consensus o…
Preface 2018 Yearbook
This is my last issue of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology as Editor. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life. I was able to collaborate with an extraordinary editorial board that were enthusiastic, dedicated and wonderful to work with. My sincerest thanks to Shara Bailey, Robin Bernstein, Jeff Long, Debra Martin, David Sprague, Chris Vinyard and our late friend and colleague, Bob Sussman. It has been a pleas…
Morphological variation in the genus Chlorocebus: Ecogeographic and anthropogenically mediated variation in body mass, postcranial morphology, and growth
OBJECTIVES: Direct comparative work in morphology and growth on widely dispersed wild primate taxa is rarely accomplished, yet critical to understanding ecogeographic variation, plastic local variation in response to human impacts, and variation in patterns of growth and sexual dimorphism. We investigated population variation in morphology and growth in response to geographic variables (i.e., latitude, altitude), climatic variables (i.e., tempera…
Participation, representation, and shared experiences of women scholars in biological anthropology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) membership surveys from 1996 and 1998 revealed significant gender disparities in academic status. A 2014 follow‐up survey showed that gender equality had improved, particularly with respect to the number of women in tenure‐stream positions. However, although women comprised 70% of AAPA membership at that time, the percentage of women full professors remained low. Here, we continue to conside…
Ethics in biological anthropology
Ethics is defined as "moral principles or a system of these," or "moral principles, maxims, precepts or observations concerning these" (Ethics, 2017). For a discipline or a profession, these principles are often articulated in a code of ethics or a code of conduct. These codes express a professional society's understanding of the obligations, strictures and responsibilities of the organization and its members. For an individual, the codes set out…
Preface 2017 Yearbook
The Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague, Robert Sussman, who passed away this summer. Bob was a former editor of the Yearbook and was a member of the current Editorial Board. He was a wonderful colleague and friend and we miss his vision and expertise. This is the first full year that the Yearbook has been delivered completely electronically. We hope that you have enjoyed having acces…
A comparison of adult body size between captive and wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) on the island of St. Kitts
Variation in vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops) hair cortisol concentrations reflects ecological disturbance by humans
Variation in Scrotal Color Among Widely Distributed Vervet Monkey Populations ( C hlorocebus Aethiops Pygerythrus and Chlorocebus Aethiops Sabaeus )
Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) exhibit bright blue scrotal skin which may function to mediate social interactions by acting as a socio-sexual signal. Previous research on scrotal coloration among vervet monkeys was limited to experimental work on captive Ch. a. sabaeus, the least colorful vervet subspecies, and two field studies of the more colorful Ch. a. pygerythrus. In a study of free-ranging and captive vervet monkeys in South Africa (…
Ethical Issues in Human Population Biology
Standards of ethical practice in any profession change over time. In this paper I examine the philosophical underpinning of the ethical norms of biological anthropology and how these norms have influenced the practice of the discipline over the past 60 years. Particular attention is paid to bioethics, a special branch of applied ethics concerned with human health and human-subjects research. Codification of bioethics began after World War II with…
The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science
Endocrine mechanisms of primate life history trade‐offs: Growth and reproductive maturation in vervet monkeys
Life history theory predicts that the timing of maturation will result from a trade‐off between growth and the age of first reproduction. This trade‐off and its mechanisms of action are still poorly understood in many species and have not been well studied at the individual level. This study examined hypothesized trade‐offs between growth and reproductive maturation in wild populations of vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) from Kenya, East…
We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Academic Climate Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology
Ecological and reproductive variance in serum leptin in wild vervet monkeys
Leptin was originally thought to be an antiobesity hormone, but increasing evidence suggests that its ancestral role was to mobilize neuroendocrine responses to starvation. Research on wild primates is critical for interpreting the high leptin values seen in Western human populations and captive animals. This study examined natural variation in serum leptin in wild vervet monkeys ( Chlorocebus aethiops ), testing the hypothesis that serum leptin …
First Among Equals: Abraham Lincoln's Reputation during His Administration
The name Hans L. Trefousse is well known to all students of the Civil War and Reconstruction. For over fifty years Professor Trefousse has shared his impressive research and scholarly insights about the middle period. One of his most significant contributions has been a revision of the old negative stereotypes about the Radical Republicans. As he has demonstrated so clearly in a number of works, including The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vangua…
The Ethics of Property and Biological Anthropology
Human Biology Association Abstracts
Comparative postcranial body shape and locomotion inChlorocebus aethiops andCercopithecus mitis
Body weight and length, chest girth, and seven postcranial limb segment lengths are compared between two guenon species, Chlorocebus (Cercopithecus) aethiops (vervets) and Cercopithecus mitis (blue monkeys), exhibiting different habitual locomotor preferences. The subjects, all adults, were wild caught for a non-related research project (Turner et al. [1986] Genetic and morphological studies on two species of Kenyan monkeys, C. aethiops and C. mi…
On the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report
Thinking about evolution: Historical, philosophical, and political perspectives
Changes in biological anthropology: Results of the 1998 American Association of Physical Anthropology Membership Survey
In response to the results of the 1996 survey of the membership of the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA), the Executive Committee of the Association sponsored a follow‐up survey designed to assess gender and specialty differences in training, employment, academic status, mentoring, and research support. A total of 993 questionnaires was analyzed, representing approximately 62% of the 1998 membership of the Association. There ha…
Anthropology, Genetic Diversity and Ethics
Ethics in biological anthropology
Ethics is defined as "moral principles or a system of these," or "moral principles, maxims, precepts or observations concerning these" (Ethics, 2017). For a discipline or a profession, these principles are often articulated in a code of ethics or a code of conduct. These codes express a professional society's understanding of the obligations, strictures and responsibilities of the organization and its members. For an individual, the codes set out…
Blood protein variation in a population of ethiopian vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops aethiops )
Seven small groups of vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops aethiops ), totaling 124 individuals, from Awash National Park, Ethiopia, were trapped and blood samples were obtained. Twenty‐three loci were examined by starch gel electrophoresis and four loci, Tf, E, ADA, and PMG2 were found to be polymorphic. The average heterozygosity (H̄) of the population was calculated to be 5.6%. No significant deviations from Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium propo…
Comparative postcranial body shape and locomotion inChlorocebus aethiops andCercopithecus mitis
Body weight and length, chest girth, and seven postcranial limb segment lengths are compared between two guenon species, Chlorocebus (Cercopithecus) aethiops (vervets) and Cercopithecus mitis (blue monkeys), exhibiting different habitual locomotor preferences. The subjects, all adults, were wild caught for a non-related research project (Turner et al. [1986] Genetic and morphological studies on two species of Kenyan monkeys, C. aethiops and C. mi…
Participation, representation, and shared experiences of women scholars in biological anthropology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) membership surveys from 1996 and 1998 revealed significant gender disparities in academic status. A 2014 follow‐up survey showed that gender equality had improved, particularly with respect to the number of women in tenure‐stream positions. However, although women comprised 70% of AAPA membership at that time, the percentage of women full professors remained low. Here, we continue to conside…
Data sharing in biological anthropology: Guiding principles and best practices
In 2017 the AAPA established an ad hoc committee on data access and data sharing; committee members were Trudy Turner (Chair), Connie Mulligan (Co-Chair), Doug Boyer, Eric Delson, and William Leonard. With support from a NSF grant to the association, the committee led a workshop on data sharing in biological anthropology on February 8–9, 2019 in Milwaukee, WI. Forty participants representing all aspects of the field were able to reach consensus o…
Ethical Issues in Human Population Biology
Standards of ethical practice in any profession change over time. In this paper I examine the philosophical underpinning of the ethical norms of biological anthropology and how these norms have influenced the practice of the discipline over the past 60 years. Particular attention is paid to bioethics, a special branch of applied ethics concerned with human health and human-subjects research. Codification of bioethics began after World War II with…
Morphological variation in the genus Chlorocebus: Ecogeographic and anthropogenically mediated variation in body mass, postcranial morphology, and growth
OBJECTIVES: Direct comparative work in morphology and growth on widely dispersed wild primate taxa is rarely accomplished, yet critical to understanding ecogeographic variation, plastic local variation in response to human impacts, and variation in patterns of growth and sexual dimorphism. We investigated population variation in morphology and growth in response to geographic variables (i.e., latitude, altitude), climatic variables (i.e., tempera…
Patterns of genetic variability in the serum proteins of the Kenyan vervet monkey ( Cercopithecus aethiops )
An electrophoretic survey of 13 serum proteins was carried out on samples drawn from 340 vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) living in 30 troops from four different localities in central and southern Kenya. The proportion of polymorphic loci is 0.17 and the average heterozygosity is 0.05. The group specific component, prealbumin carboxylesterase, and transferrin are all polymorphic. The analysis of the patterns of gene diversity show that a…
Ecological and reproductive variance in serum leptin in wild vervet monkeys
Leptin was originally thought to be an antiobesity hormone, but increasing evidence suggests that its ancestral role was to mobilize neuroendocrine responses to starvation. Research on wild primates is critical for interpreting the high leptin values seen in Western human populations and captive animals. This study examined natural variation in serum leptin in wild vervet monkeys ( Chlorocebus aethiops ), testing the hypothesis that serum leptin …
Changes in biological anthropology: Results of the 1998 American Association of Physical Anthropology Membership Survey
In response to the results of the 1996 survey of the membership of the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA), the Executive Committee of the Association sponsored a follow‐up survey designed to assess gender and specialty differences in training, employment, academic status, mentoring, and research support. A total of 993 questionnaires was analyzed, representing approximately 62% of the 1998 membership of the Association. There ha…
We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Academic Climate Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology
Microsatellite Variation in Two Populations of Free-Ranging Yellow Baboons (Papio hamadryas cynocephalus)
Blood protein variation in a population of ethiopian vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops aethiops )
Seven small groups of vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops aethiops ), totaling 124 individuals, from Awash National Park, Ethiopia, were trapped and blood samples were obtained. Twenty‐three loci were examined by starch gel electrophoresis and four loci, Tf, E, ADA, and PMG2 were found to be polymorphic. The average heterozygosity (H̄) of the population was calculated to be 5.6%. No significant deviations from Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium propo…
Physical Anthropology: Nocturnal Malagasy Primates . P. Charles‐Dominique
Reproductive Biology of the Great Apes: Comparative and Biomedical Perspectives . Charles E. Graham , ed
Patterns of genetic variability in the serum proteins of the Kenyan vervet monkey ( Cercopithecus aethiops )
An electrophoretic survey of 13 serum proteins was carried out on samples drawn from 340 vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) living in 30 troops from four different localities in central and southern Kenya. The proportion of polymorphic loci is 0.17 and the average heterozygosity is 0.05. The group specific component, prealbumin carboxylesterase, and transferrin are all polymorphic. The analysis of the patterns of gene diversity show that a…
Pregnancy outcome in free‐ranging vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops )
A preliminary assessment of individual female differences in conception rate and fetal wastage has been determined for a population of wild vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ). One of three troops of vervet monkeys, the subjects of a long‐term behavioral study, was trapped and blood was obtained for electrophoretic analysis. Pregnant females exhibited a distinctive serum aminopeptidase phenotype allowing a conclusive determination of pregna…
Application of DNA fingerprinting probes to old world monkeys
Analysis of tandem‐repetitive minisatellite DNA in humans provides great discriminatory power in paternity identification and individualization of tissue samples. The molecular probes used to study these hyper‐variable loci are here applied to DNA isolated from related animals in four species of Old World monkeys. Probes 33.6 and 33.15 are shown to cross‐hybridize with variable minisatellites in Macaca fuscata, Macaca silenus, Erythrocebus patas …
Brief communication: The 1996 American Association of Physical Anthropology membership survey
The 1996 AAPA membership survey included 1,033 participants. This number represents 72.6% of the membership of the association. Data were collected on gender, academic rank, highest degree, decade highest degree was awarded, discipline, employment, and rank order of subdiscipline. There are statistically significant differences (Chi-square test, P < 0.05) in subdiscipline membership including, among others, human and primate evolution, primatolog…
Growth, development, and sexual dimorphism in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) at four sites in Kenya
Body weight and ten body segment measurements were collected from 367 wild-trapped vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) in central and southern Kenya. The animals represent between 70 and 95% of the animals in each of 30 troops at four geographical locations separated by 80 to 380 km. The capture sites differed in altitude, mean annual rainfall and temperature. Two questions are addressed: (1) what are the differences in male and female growth…
Brief communication: The 1996 American Association of Physical Anthropology membership survey
Growth, development, and sexual dimorphism in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) at four sites in Kenya
Microsatellite Variation in Two Populations of Free-Ranging Yellow Baboons (Papio hamadryas cynocephalus)
Anthropology, Genetic Diversity and Ethics
Thinking about evolution: Historical, philosophical, and political perspectives
Changes in biological anthropology: Results of the 1998 American Association of Physical Anthropology Membership Survey
In response to the results of the 1996 survey of the membership of the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA), the Executive Committee of the Association sponsored a follow‐up survey designed to assess gender and specialty differences in training, employment, academic status, mentoring, and research support. A total of 993 questionnaires was analyzed, representing approximately 62% of the 1998 membership of the Association. There ha…
Human Biology Association Abstracts
Comparative postcranial body shape and locomotion inChlorocebus aethiops andCercopithecus mitis
Body weight and length, chest girth, and seven postcranial limb segment lengths are compared between two guenon species, Chlorocebus (Cercopithecus) aethiops (vervets) and Cercopithecus mitis (blue monkeys), exhibiting different habitual locomotor preferences. The subjects, all adults, were wild caught for a non-related research project (Turner et al. [1986] Genetic and morphological studies on two species of Kenyan monkeys, C. aethiops and C. mi…
On the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report
First Among Equals: Abraham Lincoln's Reputation during His Administration
The name Hans L. Trefousse is well known to all students of the Civil War and Reconstruction. For over fifty years Professor Trefousse has shared his impressive research and scholarly insights about the middle period. One of his most significant contributions has been a revision of the old negative stereotypes about the Radical Republicans. As he has demonstrated so clearly in a number of works, including The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vangua…
The Ethics of Property and Biological Anthropology
We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Academic Climate Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology
Ecological and reproductive variance in serum leptin in wild vervet monkeys
Leptin was originally thought to be an antiobesity hormone, but increasing evidence suggests that its ancestral role was to mobilize neuroendocrine responses to starvation. Research on wild primates is critical for interpreting the high leptin values seen in Western human populations and captive animals. This study examined natural variation in serum leptin in wild vervet monkeys ( Chlorocebus aethiops ), testing the hypothesis that serum leptin …
Endocrine mechanisms of primate life history trade‐offs: Growth and reproductive maturation in vervet monkeys
Life history theory predicts that the timing of maturation will result from a trade‐off between growth and the age of first reproduction. This trade‐off and its mechanisms of action are still poorly understood in many species and have not been well studied at the individual level. This study examined hypothesized trade‐offs between growth and reproductive maturation in wild populations of vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) from Kenya, East…
The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science
Ethical Issues in Human Population Biology
Standards of ethical practice in any profession change over time. In this paper I examine the philosophical underpinning of the ethical norms of biological anthropology and how these norms have influenced the practice of the discipline over the past 60 years. Particular attention is paid to bioethics, a special branch of applied ethics concerned with human health and human-subjects research. Codification of bioethics began after World War II with…
Variation in Scrotal Color Among Widely Distributed Vervet Monkey Populations ( C hlorocebus Aethiops Pygerythrus and Chlorocebus Aethiops Sabaeus )
Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) exhibit bright blue scrotal skin which may function to mediate social interactions by acting as a socio-sexual signal. Previous research on scrotal coloration among vervet monkeys was limited to experimental work on captive Ch. a. sabaeus, the least colorful vervet subspecies, and two field studies of the more colorful Ch. a. pygerythrus. In a study of free-ranging and captive vervet monkeys in South Africa (…
Biology (18 works) · Zoology (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (13 works) · Cercopithecus aethiops (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Vervet monkey (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works)