Tea Jashashvili

Name: Tea Jashashvili
Department/School: IHE
Country of Origin: Georgia
Supervisor(s): Dr Kristian Carlson
Funding Source: Claude Leon Foundation and Wits
Research Field: Paleoanthropology
Research Topic: Dr Jashashvili’s research focuses on understanding Human Evolution, Paleoanthropology. Her interest centered on the morphological and morphometrical variations in extant hominoids and extinct hominins during the Plio-Pleistocene, locomotoral behavior analysis of postcranial, hominoid skeleton proportions.  Her current research projects are focus in eveo-devo of human evolution (growth and development in hominoid postcranial anatomy) with additional link to locomotoral behaviors.
Start Date: 2010
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