Robert Anemone earned his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1988 based on a dissertation that analyzed hindlimb morphology of extant prosimian primates with respect to locomotor differences in positional behavior.  Since then his research interests have branched out to include dental development and life history of chimps and fossil hominids, race and human diversity, the fossil history of Eocene primates and other mammals, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing technologies in vertebrate paleontology.

    I have an active vertebrate paleontology research program in Paleocene and Eocene deposits in Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin, where I have been leading field crews since 1994 in search of early primates and other mammals.  My collaborators on this project include Wendy Dirks (Newcastle, UK), Ron Watkins (Perth, Australia), Brett Nachman (Austin, Texas) and Jay Emerson (Kalamazoo, MI).  Our work in Wyoming is focused on understanding mammalian faunal composition and turnover after the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in a previously poorly-known sedimentary basin in the SW part of the state.