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University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in Anthropology. Following this, she attained her M.A. in anthropology from Columbia University in New York in 1961. Marzke returned to the University of California, Berkeley to earn her Ph.D. in anthropology, completing it in 1964. Her Ph.D. supervisors at the University of California, Berkeley were Professors Theodore McCown and Sherwood Washburn. Marzke died on September 3, 2020, surrounded by family.
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California from 1976-1977. In 1978, she began working at the
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habitual and effective tool making and tool use.” In 2008, Markze’s research concluded that "further derived changes to the hands of other hominins such as modern humans and
Neandertals did not evolve until after 2.5 Ma and possibly even later than 1.5 Ma." Markze also pioneered the use of 3DGM methods to investigate the evolutionary history of the carpal bones of the hand.
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In 2000, Markze conducted a morphological and biomechanical analysis of the early hominin hand found at
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Markze has made a number of discoveries including her work that has demonstrated the links between precision gripping, tool behaviors, and hand morphology. Markze used experimental manufacturing of prehistoric hominin tools, behavior studies of chimpanzees, and morphological analysis, to help
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Mary Marzke was born Mary
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Apart from teaching, Markze has done an extensive amount of research throughout her career, with a “special focus on the evolution of the hominin hand and bipedality.” Markze’s research involves “extensive dissections, electromyography, kinematic analysis of joint angle displacement and tendon
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Markze began her teaching career by lecturing, then instructing at Hunter Brown
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