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Marc Kissel

Title: Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Institution: Appalachian State Univers

Discipline: Social Sciences

Appearances: 1

Notable: Co-author of Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past (2018); contributed to National Geographic Society-funded research on Homo naledi burial and symbolic practices in the Rising Star cave system; PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison; postdoctoral researcher at University of Notre Dame

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Biography

Marc Kissel is a paleoanthropologist whose research focuses on the evolution of modern humans and the processes by which hominins became human. His work encompasses the evolutionary arc of human warfare, Neandertal behavior, quantitative genetics, computer modeling, and semiotic analysis applied to modern human origins.

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