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Zewdi Tsegai is a palaeoanthropologist whose research is primarily focused on understanding the evolution of bipedalism and reconstructing locomotion in early fossil human relatives, known as hominins. Tsegai's lab employs an analysis of skeletal morphology coupled with biomechanical studies to explore the functional morphology of human and ape skeletons, as well as to reconstruct locomotor behavior in fossil hominins. His research agenda is largely centered around how behavior influences skeletal shape, utilizing plastic features to reconstruct locomotor behavior of the past. Key areas of ongoing research include the functional morphology of the foot, changes in skeletal growth, and both inter- and intra-specific variability in internal bone morphology. Tsegai was awarded a Ph.D. from Leipzig University and completed postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology from 2018 to 2021 and at the University of Kent from 2022 to 2023. He welcomes applications from potential undergraduate interns, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers interested in working in his lab.
Department of Philosophy