Ellen Miller

Dr. Ellen Miller (Ph.D. Washington University) is a biological anthropologist specializing in paleoanthropology. She works on the fossil evidence for primate and human evolution, and teaches courses on human evolution, human variation, and skeletal biology. She currently conducts fieldwork in Miocene deposits in the Turkana Basin region of northern Kenya, where she is involved in a number of projects concerned with: 1) understanding the initial divergence and early evolution of apes v. Old World monkeys; 2) better documentation of the transition from archaic to modern African faunas; and 3) an enhanced understanding of the primate context within which the human lineage evolved.

Latest Posts

• Dr. Ellen Miller: Published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Dr. Ellen Miller: Collaborates on project that shifts a paradigm of ape evolution
• My lunch with Richard by Ellen Miller
  Ellen Miller works on the fossil evidence for primate evolution and currently conducts fieldwork in Miocene deposits in the Turkana Basin. One morning in spring 2008, I was in my office at Wake Forest University when I got a call from Richard Leakey. He was in the nearby town of Greensboro for a talk that […]
• Buluk – Geologically Speaking
• Dr. Miller – Publication in the Journal of Paleontology
  Congratulations to Dr. Miller! Her article “Ectoparasite borings, mesoparasite borings, and scavenging traces in early Miocene turtle and tortoise shell: Moghra Formation, Wadi Moghra, Egypt” was published in the Journal of Paleontology.