Leslie C. Aiello

Leslie Crum Aiello (born May 26, 1946 in Pasadena, California) is an American paleoanthropologist and professor emeritus of the University College London. Since April 2005 she is the President of Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren donated Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Biography

From 1964 to 1967. Aiello studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and during this period (1965–66) spent a year as a visiting student at the University of Göttingen. After followed - also at the University of California, Los Angeles - a masters', which was completed in 1970 with a study of "A Critical Examination of the Structural remains from the Upper Palaeolithic Northern German." After that, she was at a different Californian colleges as Lecturer active until 1976 after London was where she in 1981 at the University of London, the doctoral degree in the subject anatomy acquired with a study on "An Analysis of Shape and Strength in the Long Bones of Higher Primates." This was followed by teaching at the University of Cambridge, the University of Sussex and the Yale University from 1987 to 2005 and a professor at University College London.

Aiello is among other things a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Zoological Society of London, and since 2011 a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and since 2014, the American Philosophical Society.

Research areas

In collaboration with Peter Wheeler she developed the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis, according to which there is a inverse correlation between the increase in brain size during human evolution and the parallel reduction of the digestive tract as a result of richer protein animal foods.

Works

• The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: Co-evolution of the brain and the digestive system in humans and other primates. In:. International Journal of Anthropology, Vol 9, No. 3, 1994, p 166, doi: 10.1007 / BF02575406
• Peter Wheeler: The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution. In:. Current Anthropology, Vol 36, No. 2, 1995, pp 199–221, doi: 10.1086 / 204350
• Brains and Guts in Human Evolution: The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis In:.. Brazilian Journal of Genetics, Volume 20, No. 1.1997, p 141-148, doi: 10.1590 / S0100-84551997000100023 (Full text freely accessible)
• The expensive tissue hypothesis and the evolution of the human adaptive niche: a study in comparative anatomy. In: Justine Bayley (ed.): Science in Archaeology. Agenda for the Future of English Heritage, London 1998, pp 25–36, ISBN 1-85074-693-1
• with N. Bates and T. Joffe: The expensive tissue hypothesis revisited. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 104, Supplement 24, 1997, p 62
• with N. Bates and T. Joffe: In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis: ontogeny, maternal care and organ size. In: Dean Falk, Kathleen R. Gibson (ed.): Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex Cambridge University Press., Cambridge 2001, pp 57–78, ISBN 0-521-64271-X
• Cathy Key: The energetic Consequences of being a female Homo erectus. In: American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 14, No. 5, 2002, pp 551–565. doi: 10.1002 / ajhb.10069
• Jonathan CK Wells: Energetics and the evolution of the genus Homo. In: Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol 31, 2002, pp 323–338, doi: 10.1146 / annurev.anthro.31.040402.085403
• with WEH Harcourt-Smith: Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion. In: Journal of Anatomy, Vol 204, No. 5, 2004, pp 403–416. doi : 10.1111 / j.0021-8782.2004.00296. x, Full Text
• Five years of Homo floresiensis In:.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 142, No. 2, 2010, pp 167–179, doi: 10.1002 / ajpa.21255

External links

• Personal website at the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research