Ralph Leslie Holloway

Background

Holloway, Ralph Leslie was born on February 6, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ralph L. and Marguerite (Grugan) Holloway.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Geology, University New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University California, Berkeley, 1964.

Career

Since obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, Holloway has served as a professor of anthropology at Columbia. Holloway"s interests lie in craniology, producing endocasts, primate behavior, biology of gender, sexual dimorphism in the corpus callosum, and other topics. Holloway"s work on the Taung Child was one of the first to suggest brain reorganization occurring before the increase of brain size in hominids.

His claim that the lunate sulcus, a sulcus which marks the boundary of the occipital lobe, was in a posterior position to that of apes suggests that the reduction of the occipital lobe was accompanied by enlargements of parts of the brain associated with higher cognitive function.

Holloway, Ralph L. (2008). "The Human Brain Evolving: A Personal Retrospective".

Annual Review of Anthropology (Annual Reviews) 37 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085211.

Achievements

• Ralph Leslie Holloway has been listed as a noteworthy Anthropology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Primate aggression, territoriality, and xenophobia: a comparative perspective,

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences. Member American Anthropological Association, American Association Physical Anthropologists, Society for Neurosci., Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• Trumpet, trombone, gardening, photography, genealogy.

Connections

Father:

Ralph L. Holloway

Mother:

Marguerite (Grugan) Holloway