Robert Eckhardt

Professor

203 Water Tower
University Park, PA
eyl@psu.edu
814-864-9963

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Research Summary

Genetic and environmental influences on growth and development in human populations.

Huck Affiliations

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Most Recent Publications

Dinaledi Chamber hominins do not support hypothesis of early African Homo ancestry for “Homo floresiensis” taxon based on LB1 specimen.

Robert Eckhardt, American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Maverick Scientist, Libertarian Capitalist

Robert B. Eckhardt, 2023, on p. 107-112

Evolution of modern humans is a result of self-amplifying feedbacks beginning in the Miocene and continuing without interruption until now

Maciej Henneberg, Robert B. Eckhardt, 2022, Anthropological Review on p. 77-83

Human mitochondrial DNA diversity is compatible with the multiregional continuity theory of the origin of Homo sapiens

Robert B. Eckhardt, 2022, Anthropological Review on p. 487-502

Human mitocondrial DNA is compatible with the multiregional continuity theory of the origins of Homo sapiens.

Robert Eckhardt, 2021, Anthropological Review on p. 15 [487-502]

Biomechanical perspectives on the evolutionary morphology of hominoid scapulae

Robert Eckhardt, 2021,

Paleospecies as cognitive construct: The meme of Homo floresiensis

Robert B. Eckhardt, MacIej Henneberg, 2021, Anthropological Review on p. 317-336

Confirmation of adaptive evolutionary changes in human body size over time on the island of Flores, Indonesia

Robert Eckhardt, Maciej Henneberg, 2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology on p. 1

Foreword [to The Domestication of Humans by Robert Bednarik]

Robert Eckhardt, Maciej Henneberg, 2020, on p. 10 (approximate)

Evolutionary psychology, economic freedom, trade and benevolence

John Levendis, Robert B. Eckhardt, Walter Block, 2019, Review of Economic Perspectives on p. 73-94

Most-Cited Papers

Evolved developmental homeostasis disturbed in LB1 from Flores, Indonesia, denotes Down syndrome and not diagnostic traits of the invalid species Homo floresiensis

Maciej Henneberg, Robert B. Eckhardt, Sakdapong Chavanaves, Kenneth J. Hsü, 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 11967-11972

Rare events in earth history include the LB1 human skeleton from Flores, Indonesia, as a developmental singularity, not a unique taxon

Robert B. Eckhardt, Maciej Henneberg, Alex S. Weller, Kenneth J. Hsü, 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 11961-11966

Earliest Known Hominin Calcar Femorale in Orrorin tugenensis Provides Further Internal Anatomical Evidence for Origin of Human Bipedal Locomotion

Adam Kuperavage, David Pokrajac, Sakdapong Chavanaves, Robert B. Eckhardt, 2018, Anatomical Record on p. 1834-1839