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Finding fossils in new ways: An artificial neural network approach to predicting the location of productive fossil localities

  1. Robert Anemone†,
  2. Charles Emerson‡,
  3. Glenn Conroy§

Article first published online: 27 OCT 2011

DOI: 10.1002/evan.20324

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Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews

Volume 20, Issue 5, pages 169–180, September/October 2011

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Anemone, R., Emerson, C. and Conroy, G. (2011), Finding fossils in new ways: An artificial neural network approach to predicting the location of productive fossil localities. Evol. Anthropol., 20: 169–180. doi: 10.1002/evan.20324

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  1. †

    Robert Anemone is Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. Having trained in primate functional morphology and vertebrate paleontology at the University of Washington, he has conducted field and museum research on the anatomy and life history of living and fossil primates, and mammalian evolution in North America, Europe and Africa. He has been leading field crews to the Great Divide Basin of southwestern Wyoming since 1994 in order to collect Paleocene and Eocene primates and other mammals. He is the author of Race and Human Diversity: A Biocultural Approach (Prentice-Hall, 2010).

  2. ‡

    Charles Emerson is Associate Professor of Geography at Western Michigan University. A specialist in the theory and practice of quantitative spatial analysis, he received a Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Iowa in 1996 and has recently been examining grassland degradation in Inner Mongolia. Dr. Emerson is one of the developers of the Image Characterization and Modeling System, a software package that measures the fractal dimensions of remotely sensed images.

  3. §

    Glenn Conroy is Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. He is known for his work on nearly every epoch of primate and human fossil history. He is author of Primate Evolution and Reconstructing Human Origins, both published by W. W. Norton.

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  1. Issue published online: 27 OCT 2011
  2. Article first published online: 27 OCT 2011

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