Department of Anthropology

Penn State University

George Chaplin

Senior Research Associate

Faculty Image Office: 519 Carpenter Building
Telephone: (814) 865-9643
Email: guc5@psu.edu
 

EDUCATION:

  • City of London University 1974 Transport Studies
  • Manchester Metropolitan University 1998: Post-Graduate studies Remote Sensing
  • Simon Fraser University 2000: Post-Graduate Certificate of Geographic Information Systems and Sciences
  • Department of Environmental Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University 2001: MSc in GIS Awarded with Distinction
  • Association for Geographic Information 2002, sponsored by the Ordnance Survey Student of the Year Award for a thesis at any level award at a UK University
  • GISP 2005 (Certified GIS Professional GIS Certification  Institute)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

I am interested in all aspects of the Spatial Sciences and how they can be used to illuminate the present human condition and its ancestry. I study: GIS, Human Ecology, Spatial Epidemiology, Spatial and Geo-Statistics, Human Biogeography, Biodiversity, and pa leo-ecological reconstruction.

FIELDWORK:

  • Nepal
  • China Yunnan
  • Kenya Koobi Fora

COURSES TAUGHT :

  • GEOG 598a:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
  • Chaplin, G. (2005) Physical Geography of the Gaoligong Shan Area of Southwest China in Relation to Biodiversity, Proceedings of The California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Volume 56, No. 28, pp. 527–556
  • Ji, X.-P., Jablonski, N.G., Chaplin, G., Liu, J.-W., Dong, W., Li, Z.-C., and Wang, L.-R.  (2004)  Preliminary report of mammal fossils recovered from the 2003 field seasons from Tangizgou, Yunnan.  In:   Dong, W. (ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.  China Ocean Press, Beijing, pp. 243-252.  In Chinese – English version to be published shortly.
  • Chaplin, G. (2004) Geographic distribution of environmental factors influencing human skin coloration. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2004 Nov;125(3):292-302
  • Jablonski, N.G. and Chaplin, G.  (2004)  Becoming bipedal:  How do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny?  In:  Anapol, F., German, R.Z., and Jablonski, N.G., eds.  Shaping Primate Evolution:  Form, Function and Behavior.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 281-296.
  • Jablonski, N.G., Ji, X.-P., Chaplin, G., Wang, L.-R., Yang, S.-Y., Li, Z.-C., and Li, G.-H.  (2003)  A Preliminary report on new and previously known vertebrate paleontological sites in Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.  Proc.Cal. Acad. Sci.  54:209-224.
  • Jablonski, N.G., Chaplin, G., and McNamara, K.J.  (2001)  Natural selection and the evolution of hominid patterns of growth and development.  In:  Minugh-Purvis, N. and McNamara, K.J., eds.  Human Evolution through Developmental Change.  Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 189-206.
  • Jablonski, N.G. and Chaplin, G.  (2000)  The evolution of human skin coloration.  J. Hum. Evol.  39:57-106. 
  • Jablonski, N.G., Pan, R.-L., and Chaplin, G. (1998)  Mandibular morphology of the doucs and snub-nosed monkeys in relation to diet.  In:  Jablonski, N.G. (ed.) The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys, Singapore:  World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 105-128.
  • Chaplin, G. and Jablonski, N.G. (1998)  The integument of the odd-nosed colobines. In:  Jablonski, N.G. (ed.) The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys, Singapore:  World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 79-104.
  • Chaplin, G. and Jablonski, N.G.  (1998)  Comment on hemispheric difference in skin color.  Am. J. Phys. Anthrop.  107:221-224.
  • Chaplin, G., Jablonski, N.G., and Cable, N.T.  (1994)  Physiology, thermoregulation and bipedalism.  J. Hum. Evol.  27:497-510.
  • Jablonski, N.G. and Chaplin, G.  (1993)  Origin of habitual terrestrial bipedalism in the ancestor of the Hominidae.  J. Hum. Evol.  24:259-280.
  • Jablonski, N.G. and Chaplin, G.  (1992)  The origin of hominid bipedalism re-examined.  Archaeol. Oceania  29:115-125.
  • Chaplin, G. (1991). "A comment on the effect of posture and locomotion on energy expenditure." Am J Phys Anthropol 84(1): 99-101.