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Duke University - Evolutionary Anthropology


  • Blythe A. Williams

  • Visiting Associate Professor
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • 0013 Biological Sciences Building
  • Campus Box 90383
  • Phone: (919) 660-7385
  • Fax: (919) 660-7348

  • Specialties

    • Primate Paleontology & Morphology
    • Primate Biology
    • Evolution of Primate Behavior
    • Paleoanthropology

  • Research Summary

    Primate and human evolution; Systematics and adaptations of primates

  • Research Description

    I'm interested in the evolutionary relationships and ecological adaptations of primates, with particular focus on the initial diversification of the order Primates and the origin of the Anthropoidea. I'm currently studying Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecoids from Botswana and Eocene primates from the western and southern United States.

  • Teaching

    • EVANTH 238S
      • PRIMATE ADAPTATION
    • EVANTH 314
      • BIOLOGICAL ANTH SEMINAR

  • Education

      • Ph.D.,
      • Anthropology,
      • University of Colorado, Boulder,
      • 1994

  • Selected Publications

      • Williams, B.A. and Kirk, E.C..
      • 2008.
      • New Uintan Primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene.
      • Journal Articles
      • Journal of Human Evolution
      • 55
      • 927-941
      • 2008
      • Bajpai, S., Kay, R.F., Williams, B.A., Das, Debasis, Kapur, V.V., Tiwari, B.N..
      • 2008.
      • The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea
      • Journal Articles
      • Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
      • 105
      • 11093-11098
      • 2008
      • Williams, B.A..
      • 2007.
      • Comparing levels of homoplasy in the primate skeleton
      • Journal Articles
      • Journal of Human Evolution
      • 52
      • 480-489
      • 2007
      • Kay, R.F., Williams, B.A., Ross, C.R., Takai, M, and Shigehara, N..
      • C.F. Ross and R.F. Kay.
      • 2004.
      • Anthropoid Origins: a phylogenetic analysis
      • Book Sections/Chapters
      • Anthropoid Origins: New Visions
      • 91-135
      • Kluwer/Plenum.
      • Kay, R.F., Williams, B.A., and Anaya, F..
      • M. Plavcan, R. Kay, W. Jungers, and C. van Shaik Schaik.
      • 2001.
      • The adaptations of Branisella boliviana, the earliest South American monkey
      • Book Sections/Chapters
      • Reconstructing behavior in the fossil record
      • 339-370
      • Plenum.
      • 2001
      • Sánchez-Villagra, M. and Williams, B.A..
      • 1998.
      • Levels of homoplasy in the evolution of the mammalian skeleton
      • Journal Articles
      • Journal of Mammalian Evolution
      • 5
      • 2
      • 113-126
      • Ross, C.F., Williams, B. A., and Kay, R. F..
      • 1998.
      • Phylogenetic Analysis of Anthropoid Relationships
      • Journal Articles
      • Journal of Human Evolution
      • 35
      • 221-306
      • Kay, R.F., Ross, C.F., and Williams, B.A..
      • 1997.
      • Rethinking anthropoid origins
      • Journal Articles
      • Science
      • 275
      • 797-804
      • 1997
      • Kay, R.F., Ross, C.F., and Williams, B.A., and Johnson, D..
      • 1997.
      • Cladistic Analysis and Anthropoid Origins
      • Journal Articles
      • Science
      • 278
      • 2134-2136
      • 1997
      • Williams, B.A. and Kay, R..
      • 1995.
      • The taxon anthropoidea and the crown clade concept
      • Journal Articles
      • Evolutionary Anthropology
      • 3
      • 6
      • 188-190
      • 1995
      • Williams, B.A. and Kay, R. F..
      • 1995.
      • The taxon Anthropoidea and the crown clade concept
      • Journal Articles
      • Evolutionary Anthropology
      • 3
      • 6
      • 188-190
      • 1995