Dr. Steven R. Leigh Ph.D.
Department Head, Professor of Anthropology
Contact
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Office:
Anthropology 109 Davenport Hall 607 S Mathews M/C 148 Urbana, IL 61801 - Phone: (217)333-3616
- Email: sleigh@illinois.edu
Office Hours
- Regular business hours, and by appointment
Links
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, Northwestern University, 1992; M.A., Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1985; B.A., Anthropology, Northwestern University, 1980
Research Interests
Ontogeny and Life History Evolution; Human Evolution; Host-Microbe Systems; Human Anatomy and Variation
Professional Memberships
American Association of Physical Anthropologists; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publications
Books
- Swedell, L., and S. R. Leigh. Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons. New York: Springer, 2006.
Book Contributions
- Leigh, S. R., G. E. Blomquist, and M. Kowalewski. "Demographic and Morphological Perspectives on Life History Evolution and Conservation of New World Monkeys." South American Primates. Ed. P. A. Garber, A. Estrada, E. Heymann, J. C. Bicca-Marques, and K. B. Strier. New York: Springer, 2009. 117-138.
- Leigh, S. R., and G. E. Blomquist. "Life History." Primates in Perspective, 2nd Ed.. Ed. S. K. Bearder, C. Campbell, A. Fuentes, K. C. MacKinnon, and M. Panger. Oxford (in press): Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Leigh, S. R. "Growth and Development of Baboons." The Baboon in Biomedical Research, Volume 3. Ed. J L. VandeBerg, S. Williams-Blangero, and S. D. Tardiff. New York: Springer, 2009. 57-88.
- Leigh, S. R., and G. E. Blomquist. "Life History." Primates in Perspective. Ed. C. Campbell, K. C. MacKinnon, M. Panger, S. K. Bearder, and M. Panger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 396-407.
- Leigh, S. R., and R. M. Bernstein. "Ontogeny, life history, and maternal reproductive strategies in baboons." Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons. Ed. L. Swedell and S. R. Leigh. New York: Springer, 2006. 225-256.
- Swedell, L., and S. R. Leigh. "Introduction." Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons. Ed. L. Swedell and S. R. Leigh. N: Springer, 2006. 1-16.
- Antón, S. C., and S. R. Leigh. "Growth and life history in Homo Erectus." Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo. Ed. J. L. Thompson, G. E. Krovitz, and A. J. Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 219-245.
- Leigh, S. R., P. B. Park, L. W. Konigsberg, and J. H. Relethford. "Morphological differentiation of Gorilla subspecies." Gorilla Biology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Ed. A. B. Taylor and M. L. Goldsmith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 104-131.
- Pereira, M. E., and S. R. Leigh. "Phases and modes of primate juvenility." Primate Life Histories and Socioecology. Ed. P. Kappeler and M. E. Pereira. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 149-176.
Journal Articles
- Kim, H. K., S. M. Thomas, M. Ho, S. Sharma, C. I. Reich, J. A. Frank, K. M. Yeater, D. R. Biggs, N. Nakamura, R. Stumpf, S. R. Leigh, R. I. Tapping, S. R. Blanke, J. M. Slauch, H. R. Gaskins, J. S. Weisbaum, G. J. Olsen, L. L. Hoyer, and B. A. Wilson. "Heterogeneity of vaginal microbial communities within individuals." J. Clin. Microbiol. 47 (2009): 1181-1189.
- Leigh, S. R., J. M. Setchell, M. Charpentier, L. A. Knapp, and E. J. Wickings. "Canine Tooth Size and Fitness in Male Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx)." J. Hum. Evol. 55 (2008): 75-85.
- Bernstein, R. M., S. R. Leigh, S. M. Donovan, and M. H. Monaco. "Hormonal correlates of ontogeny in baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) and mangabeys (Cercocebus atys)." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 136 (2008): 156-168.
- Leigh, S. R. "Homoplasy and the evolution of ontogeny in papionin primates." J. Hum. Evol. 52 (2007): 536-538.
- Bernstein, R. M., S. R. Leigh, S. M. Donovan, and M. H. Monaco. "Hormones and body size evolution in papionin primates." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 132 (2007): 247-260.
- Williams, F. L., R. R. Ackermann, and S. R. Leigh. "Inferring Plio-Pleistocene southern African biochronology from facial affinities in Parapapio and other fossil papionins." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 132 (2007): 163-174.
- Leigh, S. R. "Cranial Ontogeny of Papio baboons (Papio hamadryas)." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 130 (2006): 71-84.
- Leigh, S. R. "Brain ontogeny and life history in Homo erectus." J. Hum. Evol. 50 (2006): 104-108.
- Leigh, S. R., J. M. Setchell, and L. S. Buchanan. "Ontogenetic bases of canine dimorphism in anthropoid primates." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 127 (2005): 296-311.
- Leigh, S. R. "Brain growth, life history, and cognition in primate and human evolution." Am. J. Primatol. 62 (2004): 139-164.
- Leigh, S. R., N. F. Shah, and L. S. Buchanan. "Ontogeny and phylogeny in papionin primates." J. Hum. Evol. 45 (2003): 285-316.
- Bullington, J., and S. R. Leigh. "Rock art revisited." Science 296 (2002): 468.
- Garber, P. A., and S. R. Leigh. "Patterns of positional behavior in mixed-species troops of Callimico goeldii, Saguinus labiatus, and Saguinus fuscicollis in northwestern Brazil." Am. J. Primatol. 54 (2001): 17-31.
- Rehg, J. A., and S. R. Leigh. "Estimating sexual dimorphism and size differences in the fossil record: a test of methods." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 110 (1999): 95-104.
Grants
Ontogeny, Phylogeny, and Heterochrony in Old World Monkeys (NSF 9707361); Comparative Primate Microbial Ecology (Co-PI, Rebecca Stumpf, PI, NSF 0820709); Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Hormones and Body Size Evolution in Old World Monkeys (with Robin Bernstein, NSF 0339050); Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: The Evolution of the Supraorbital Pattern of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo (with Jodi Blumenfeld, NSF 0622420); Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: The Ontogeny of Feeding Behavior in Nicaraguan Mantled Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) (with Melissa Raguet-Schofield, NSF 0622411)