Todd R. Disotell
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1992; M.A. 1987, Harvard University; B.A. 1985, Cornell University
Email: todd.disotell@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-3811
Office: 401
Research Interests
- biological anthropology
- molecular evolution
- mitochondrial DNA
- bioinformatics
- Darwinian medicine
- cryptozoology
- primate evolution
- genomics
- phylogenetic systematics
- conservation genetics
- human variation
- history of biological anthropology
Other Affiliations
Professor, NYU Department of Anthropology
Faculty, New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology
Core Faculty, MA in Human Skeletal Biology
Faculty Mentor, NYU Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE)
Current Projects
Selected Publications
[ Academia | ResearchGate ]Pozzi, L., Disotell, T.R., & Masters, J.C. 2014. A multilocus phylogeny reveals deep lineages within African galagids (Primates: Galagidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 72.
Montague, M.J., Disotell, T.R., & Di Fiore, A. 2014. Population Genetics, Dispersal, and Kinship Among Wild Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus macrodon): Preferential Association Between Closely Related Females and Its Implications for Insect Prey Capture Success. International Journal of Primatology 35(1): 169-187.
Pozzi, L., Hodgson, J.A., Burrell, A.S., Sterner, K.N., Raaum, R.L., & Disotell, T.R. 2014. Primate phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetic Evolution 75: 165-183.
Bergey, C.M., Pozzi, L., Disotell, T.R., & Burrell, A.S. 2013. A New Method for Genome-wide Marker Development and Genotyping Holds Great Promise for Molecular Primatology. International Journal of Primatology 34: 303-314.
Disotell, T.R. 2013. Human Biological Variation. Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Edition. New York: Macmillan Reference.
Disotell, T.R. 2013. Genetic Perspectives on Ape and Human Evolution, in D. R. Begun (Ed.) A Companion to Paleoanthropology, 1st Edition. Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing.
Disotell, T.R. 2012. Archaic human genomics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 55: 24-39.
Pozzi, L., Hodgson, J.A., Burrell, A.S., & Disotell, T.R. 2011. The stem catarrhine Saadanius does not inform the timing of the origin of crown catarrhines. Journal of Human Evolution 61: 209-210.
Hodgson, J.A. & Disotell, T.R. 2010. Anthropological Genetics: Inferring the History of Our Species Through the Analysis of DNA. Evolution: Education and Outreach 3: 387-398.
Hodgson, J.A., Bergey, C.M., & Disotell, T.R. 2010. Neanderthal genome: the ins and outs of African genetic diversity. Current Biology 20: R517-R519.
Burrell, A.S. & Disotell, T.R. 2009. Panmixia Postposted: ancestry-related assortative mating in contemporary human populations. Genome Biology 10: 245.
Li, J., Han, K., Xing, J., Kim, H.-S., Rogers, J., Ryder, O.A., Disotell, T.R., Yue, B., Batzer, M.A. 2009. Phylogeny of the macaques (Cercopithecidae: Macaca) based on Alu elements. Gene 448(2): 242-249.
Hodgson, J.A., Sterner, K.N., Matthews, L.J., Burrell, A.S., Jani, R.A., Raaum, R.L., Stewart, C.B., & Disotell, T.R. 2009. Successive radiations, not stasis, in the South American primate fauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 5534-5539.
Burrell, A.S., Jolly, C.J., Tosi, A.J., & Disotell, T.R. 2009. Mitochondrial evidence for the hybrid origin of the kipunji, Rungwecebus kipunji (Primates: Papionini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51: 340-348.