About | gabriellerusso

Hi, I'm Gabrielle Russo,

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University.

I am a biological anthropologist who specializes in primate functional anatomy and evolution. Much of my research focuses on major transformations to the axial skeleton (i.e., head and vertebral column) that occurred during ape and human evolution.

I am particularly interested in dramatic changes that took place in the Miocene

(~ 23 to 5 million years ago [Ma]), including the loss of an external tail in early apes, the adoption of more upright trunk postures in apes of a modern aspect, and the acquisition of adaptations to walking on two legs (bipedalism) in early hominins.