anatomy

For more than 40 years, the Case Western Reserve University Anatomical Gift Program (AGP) has been a trusted source of cadavers to many of the health professions students at CWRU, including those in the MD, PA, dental medicine, and graduate anatomy programs. Donating one’s body is a selfless gift…

Darin Croft, professor of anatomy, worked with Guillermo López of the Museo de La Plata in Argentina to co-edit a special annual issue of the journal Ameghiniana. The issue focused on extinct mammals and included eight articles, most of which were presented at a 2018 symposium in Colombia organized…

4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested Fossil hominin talus The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our…

Darin Croft, professor of anatomy, Denise Su, adjunct assistant professor of biology, and Scott Simpson, professor of anatomy, co-edited a volume titled Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities, which was recently published by…

The Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity Ohio Delta will host its second annual Anatomy Fashion Show Saturday, Nov. 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballrooms. Inspired by the Dittrick Museum of Medical History's Rare Books Collection, students from multiple organizations…

Editor's note: This event has been changed. Mano Singham, physicist and retired director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University, will present "How We Finally Figured out the Age of the Earth." Walking on your knuckles is as odd as…

In a recent review published by Scientific American, Darin Croft’s book Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys: The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America is described in detail and praised not only for its organization and accuracy, but also for its illustrations. Croft is a professor of…

Modern human beings have been around for around 200,000 years and we have recorded history for less than 10,000 years. However, through the science of paleontology, we have gained a detailed knowledge about what life was like stretching back billions of years. Professor of Anatomy Darin Croft,…

Darin Croft, associate professor of anatomy, received a gold medal "IPPY" award for science category for his book, Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys: The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America. "IPPY" awards—or the Independent Publisher Book Awards—are given out by the Jenkins Group and…

Findings show the family, Palaeothentidae, was once widespread across the continent but add to extinction doubts The discovery of three extinct species and new insights to a fourth indicates a little-known family of marsupials, the Palaeothentidae, was diverse and existed over a wide range of…