Ralph L Holloway

Ralph L Holloway
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Columbia University, USA

Biography

Dr. Holloway completed his Ph.D from University of California at Berkeley on "Anthropology" in 1964. Presently, he is a full professor at the Columbia University and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the P.I and Co-P.I. for a number of grants by NSF and NIH (with Michael Campbell). He has been Elected to Phi Kappa Phi at University of New Mexico, and Honorary Geological Society, Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Education, Who’s Who, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Dictionary of International Biography, American Men & Women of Science; presented James Arthur Lecture on the Evolution of the Human Brain, 1973; awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1974); Sigma Xi; elected Fellow, NYAS (1977), Fellow, AAAS (1969);honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University (1992); Directory of American Scholars (2000). He received the Wilton Krogman Award for “Distinguished Achievement in Biological Anthropology”, Feb., 2004, University of Pennsylvania.

Research Interest

Evolution of brain and behavior; comparative primate psychology and aggression; ethology; stress biology; evolutionary biology; paleoneurology; the nature of culture; hominid paleontology; neural biological variability; sexual dimorphism; and allometry.