Robert Anemone is a biological anthropologist (Ph.D. 1988, University of Washington) with research interests in primate paleontology, growth and development and life history of hominoids, and functional anatomy of living and fossil prosimian primates. He has an active vertebrate paleontology research program in the Paleocene and Eocene of the Great Divide Basin in southwestern Wyoming, where he has been leading field crews since 1994. Before coming to Western Michigan University in 1998, he taught at Tulane University and at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
During the summer of 2004 Dr. Anemone travelled to northern Kenya with colleagues from Wake Forest University, SUNY at Stony Brook, and Curtin University in Australia in order to search for early Miocene mammals at a site known as Buluk. In the picture at left, he is happily displaying a partial maxilla of the early Miocene ape Afropithecus.