sharon kuo
PhD Candidate
research interests
Sharon studies the functional morphology of the hominoid foot. She is currently studying lower limb joint morphology and biomechanics in extant primates to apply to the fossil record and reconstruct the evolution of locomotion.
recent presentations
Kuo, S., Orr, C., Patel, B., Ward, C. V. 2018. Functional Morphology of the Anthropoid Primate Hindfoot. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco, CA.
Recent publications
L’Abbé, E.N., Symes, S.A., Pokines, J.T., Cabo, L.L., Stull, K.E., Kuo, S., Raymond, D.E., Randolph-Quinney, P.S. and Berger, L.R., 2015. Evidence of fatal skeletal injuries
on Malapa Hominins 1 and 2. Scientific reports, 5, p.15120. doi:10.1038/srep15120