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Jeffrey Meldrum

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cave. He acknowledged that the results of the Russian field trip to the cave site were most likely fraudulent. He suggested that the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity.
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Meldrum has published numerous academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans, and the plausibility behind the
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regarding the Siberian Snowman, which included among other things investigating alleged footprints that had been spotted in a
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as his doctoral advisor. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at
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From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport
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Radford, Benjamin; Dennett, Michael R; Crowley, Matt; Daegling, David J. (2007).
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in 2006. The book was heavily criticized in a detailed review in the
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phenomena, in addition to being a co-editor of a series of books on
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Terrestrial adaptations in the feet of African cercopithecines
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Terrestrial adaptations in the feet of African cercopithecines
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Meldrum has attracted media attention due to his interest in
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From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking
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In 1989, he completed a 329: 327: 325: 321: 532:"Bigfoot - Science Vs by Gimlet Media" 416:. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 206:from 1989 to 1991. Meldrum worked at 7: 1231: 939:Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World 251:", written with Trent D. Stephens. 16:American anthropologist (born 1958) 14: 1023:Monsters and Mysteries in America 483:. 3 November 2006. 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Meldrum also co-edited 144:Don Jeffrey "Jeff" Meldrum 1225: 381:Meldrum, Jeffrey (1989). 283:reviewed the book in the 137: 82: 1280:American anthropologists 229:with Charles E. Hilton. 180:Brigham Young University 51:Brigham Young University 1305:Duke University faculty 1212:Young Earth creationism 768:David Hatcher Childress 609:Cartmill, Matt (2008). 208:Northwestern University 196:biological anthropology 98:Northwestern University 1171:George Gaylord Simpson 389:Stony Brook University 212:Idaho State University 192:Stony Brook University 156:Idaho State University 102:Idaho State University 64:Stony Brook University 1051:The Hunt for the Buru 170:Meldrum received his 1202:Hypothetical species 1072:The Secret Saturdays 1136:Sherrie Lynne Lyons 1101:Robert Todd Carroll 838:Aleksandr Kondratov 813:John Willison Green 487:on 8 September 2010 352:2007SciAm.297f..50H 340:Scientific American 267:. Meldrum authored 823:Bernard Heuvelmans 778:William R. 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Brigham Young University
B.S.
M.S.
Stony Brook University
Ph.D.
Duke University
Northwestern University
Idaho State University
Thesis
Terrestrial adaptations in the feet of African cercopithecines
Doctoral advisor
John G. Fleagle
Anatomy
Anthropology
Idaho State University
primates
B.S.
zoology
Brigham Young University
M.S.
Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
biological anthropology
John G. Fleagle
Duke University Medical Center
Northwestern University
Idaho State University
Sasquatch
paleontology
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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