Noel Boaz

Professor
Anatomy

M.D. - Saba University School of Medicine
Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley

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Noel T. Boaz is Professor of Anatomy at Ross University School of Medicine and course director for Gross Anatomy I.

Dr. Boaz received his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and his M.D. at Saba University School of Medicine in the Netherlands Antilles in 2005.

A physical anthropologist with many years of field experience in Africa, his current research is on earliest hominid origins. Other research interests include evolutionary medicine, clinical anatomy, ecology and human biology, and human rights and forensic anthropology. In 1999 Dr. Boaz was scientific planning director in Bosnia for Physicians for Human Rights.

At Ross he serves as Faculty Advisor for the student chapter of Physicians for Human Rights.

The author of over 50 scientific publications, Dr. Boaz has recently published Evolving Health (2002, John Wiley), an application of human evolutionary biology to preventive medicine, a textbook Biological Anthropology: A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution (2002, with Alan Almquist, Prentice Hall), and Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus (2004, with Russell Ciochon, Oxford University Press).

Selected Publications

Boaz, N.T., A. El-Arnauti, J. Agusti, R.L. Bernor, P. Pavlakis, and L. Rook (2005)
Temporal, lithostratigraphic, and biochronologic setting of the Sahabi Formation, north central Libya. Geology of East Libya. Eds. M.J. Salem, et al. Amsterdam: Elsevier [In Press].

Boaz, N.T., R.L. Ciochon, Xu Qinqi, and Liu Jinyi (2004)
Mapping and taphonomic analysis of the Homo erectus loci at Locality 1 Zhoukoudian, China. Journal of Human Evolution. 46:519-549

Boaz, N.T. and R.L. Ciochon (2004)
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus. New York: Oxford University Press. 232 pp

Boaz, N.T. (2002)
Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick. New York: Wiley. 250 pp

Boaz, N.T. and A.J. Almquist (2002)
Biological Anthropology, A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 2nd ed.

Boaz, N.T. and R.L. Ciochon (2001)
The scavenging of Peking Man. Natural History 110(2):46-51

Boaz, N.T., R.L. Ciochon, Xu Qinqi, and Liu Jinyi (2000)
Large mammalian carnivores as a taphonomic factor in the bone accumulation at Zhoukoudian. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, Suppl. vol. 19:224-234

Boaz, N.T. and A.J. Almquist (1998)
Essentials of Biological Anthropology. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

 

 

 

 

 

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