Dr. John Kappelman (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987) is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Geological Sciences. He is interested in the evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid and hominin origins and evolution. He currently directs ongoing field project in the latest Oligocene and Pleistocene of northwestern Ethiopia and participates in field projects in Kenya and Turkey. He is the principal investigator for a suite of web sites aggregated under www.eAnthro.org (www.eSkeletons.org, www.eFossils.org, www.eLucy.org, www.eForensics.info) that offer a wealth of comparative human and primate osteology, forensics, and paleoanthropology. His research interests include paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging.