Deanna Goldstein

Dr. Deanna Goldstein Deanna Goldstein
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Education
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2021

Email
deanna.goldstein@stonybrook.edu

Dr. Goldstein's research focuses on the relationship between form and function in humans and non-human primates, and on bone functional adaptation across mammals. More specifically, her research involves using quantitative approaches such as weighted spherical harmonics, three-dimensional geometric morphometrics, and cross-sectional and trabecular bone analyses to explore how bone adapts to loads incurred during life. She is currently working on an analysis of the external and internal carpal morphology of knuckle-walking apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas) among mammals. This research will be used to determine whether carpal shape differences in African apes are due to the independent evolution of knuckle-walking or to some other factor such as body size variation. Because chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas are the most closely related extant taxa to humans, understanding how knuckle-walking evolved in African apes impacts our understanding of how bipedality evolved in humans.