Claire E. Terhune Source Confirmed
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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
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Claire E. Terhune, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, investigates primate craniofacial morphology, paleoanthropology, and environmental reconstruction. Her research utilizes geometric morphometrics to analyze skeletal specimens, including those with damage or pathology, to increase sample sizes and improve analytical robustness.
Terhune has received federal funding from the National Science Foundation for her work. This includes $32,610 as PI for research on the chewing function of the hyoid bone and suprahyoid muscles in primates. She also served as Co-PI on two grants totaling $457,271 for collaborative research and resource advancement in spatial archaeometry.
Her recent publications explore diverse topics such as hominin presence in Eurasia, fluctuating asymmetry in rhesus macaques, and the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Early Pleistocene sites in Romania. She has a h-index of 18, with 77 total publications and 993 citations. Terhune leads a research group and collaborates with researchers from the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith and within her own institution.
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- h-index: 18
- Publications: 77
- Citations: 993
Selected Publications
- A (Bite) Force to Be Reckoned With (2025) DOI
- Ontogenetic Changes in Feeding Behaviors in Tufted Capuchins (2025) DOI
- Jaw‐Muscle Structure and Function in Primates: Insights Into Muscle Performance and Feeding‐System Behaviors (2025) DOI
- Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago (2025) DOI
- The influence of age, biological sex, anthropometrics, and neck characteristics on external occipital protuberance size (2024) DOI
- Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys (2024) DOI
- Sexual Dimorphism and Divergent Evolutionary Pathways in Primate Cranial Biomechanics: Insights From a Theoretical Morphology Framework (2024) DOI
- Variation in Craniodental Pathologies Among Cercopithecoid Primates (2024) DOI
- Ontogenetic biomechanics of tufted (<i>Sapajus</i>) and untufted (<i>Cebus</i>) capuchin mandibles (2024) DOI
- Dental remains of Plio–Pleistocene Cercopithecidae (Mammalia: Primates) from Romania (2024) DOI
- Tradeoffs between bite force and gape in <i>Eulemur</i> and <i>Varecia</i> (2024) DOI
- Ontogenetic changes in jaw leverage and skull shape in tufted and untufted capuchins (2024) DOI
- The impact of measurement technique and sampling on estimates of skeletal muscle fibre architecture (2024) DOI
- CARNIVORA FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF GRĂUNCEANU (OLTEŢ RIVER VALLEY, DACIAN BASIN, ROMANIA) (2023) DOI
- Skeletal age during hurricane impacts fluctuating asymmetry in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques (2023) DOI
Federal Grants 3 $490,471 total
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