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Kyoto University Museum Lab
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A lab that traces the evolutionary path of primates through fossils.
AboutAbout the lab
Tracing primate evolution through fossils and environmental change
The Phylogeny Lab (Kyoto University Museum) conducts interdisciplinary, comprehensive research on primate phylogeny and evolution.
It studies fossils of primates and various other mammals using diverse methods, including excavations in Japan and abroad, morphological comparison, reconstruction of paleoenvironments through isotope ratio analysis, image analysis such as CT, and engineering-based functional morphology analysis.
Faculty members conduct research at the Kyoto University Museum in the Yoshida area.
Key terms
- Paleoenvironment
- The environment of the distant past, such as its climate and vegetation.
- Functional morphology
- The study of why the shape of the body is the way it is, in terms of the functions it serves.
- Isotope ratio analysis
- A method for estimating the environment and diet from the proportions of the different-weight varieties of an element contained in fossils and other materials.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts interdisciplinary, comprehensive research on primate phylogeny and evolution, integrating knowledge from paleontology, geology, biogeography, geochemistry, and functional morphology.
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MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasanaru Takai
- Assistant ProfessorTsuyoshi Ito
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Kyoto University Museum” J o / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Primate Evolution and Environmental Change: “Primate exhibit museum of osteology” JimJones1971 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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