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William L. Jungers
William L. Jungers (born November 17, 1948) is an American anthropologist, Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Chair of the Department of Anatomical Sciences at State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, New York. He is best known for his work on the biomechanics of bipedal locomotion in hominids such as the 3.4-million-year-old Lucy (''Australopithecus afarensis''),〔Jungers, W.L. (1982). Lucy's limbs: Skeletal allometry and locomotion in Australopithecus afarensis (A.L. 288-1). ''Nature'' 297:676-678.〕 and the 6.1- to 5.8-million-year-old Millennium Man ''Orrorin tugenensis''.〔Richmond B.G. and Jungers W.L. (2008), ''Orrorin tugenensis'' Femoral Morphology and the Evolution of Hominin Bipedalism, ''Science'' 319. no. 5870, pp. 1662 - 1665.〕 He devoted much of his career to the study of the lemurs of Madagascar, especially giant extinct subfossil forms such as ''Megaladapis''.〔Jungers, W.L., (2005). The functional significance of skeletal allometry in Megaladapis in comparison to living prosimians. ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', 49(3), pp. 303 - 314.〕 More recently, Jungers has been a subject of media attention due to his analysis of the remains of ''Homo floresiensis'', which he believes to be legitimate members of a newly discovered species based on remains of the shoulder,〔Larson S.G., Jungers W.L., Morwood M.J., Sutikna T., Jatmiko, Saptomo E.W., Due R.A., Djubiantono T. 2007. Homo floresiensis and the evolution of the hominin shoulder. ''Journal of Human Evolution''. 53(6):718-31.〕 the wrist,〔Tocheri M.W., Orr C.M., Larson S.G., Sutikna T, Jatmiko, Saptomo E.W., Due R.A., Djubiantono T., Morwood M.J., Jungers W.L. (2007). The primitive wrist of Homo floresiensis and its implications for hominin evolution. ''Science'', 317(5845):1743-5.〕 and the feet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bill Jungers’ conclusions on Homo floresiensis bipedalism — the clown-footed hominin - Anthropology.net )〕
== Early life ==
Jungers was born in Palacios, Texas and spent part of his childhood in that area. He excelled academically from an early age and graduated as one of several valedictorians of his 1966 Streator Township High School class. Standing 6'4" tall, he was also an accomplished basketball player throughout his high school career. Following graduation, he attended Oberlin College for his undergraduate education where he was involved in the liberal political and social culture of the late 1960s. He later received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1976 at the age of 26 under the advisorship of Frank Livingstome, Milford Wolpoff and C. Loring Brace. He was hired shortly thereafter at the University of Illinois but moved in 1978 to the State University of New York at Stony Brook Department of Anatomical Sciences, where he has remained throughout the course of his career.
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