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Keywords
Keywords
Out of Africa of Homo sapiens
Modern human-Neanderthal interaction
Evolution of human bipedality and encephalization
Evolution of childbirth in primates
About me
About me
I was born in Wakayama, Japan. After finishing a master program at Kyoto University (biological science), I did my PhD at University of Zurich, Switzerland (Anthropology, Natural Sciences).
I'm now back at Kyoto University, doing research and education.
Contact
Contact
Address
Laboratory of Physical Anthropology
Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, 606-8502 Kyoto, Japan
morimoto(at)anthro.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Lectures
Lectures
2014- Physical Anthropology II、Biological Experiments、Advanced Biological Experiments、Biological Seminar（Kyoto University）
2014-2016 ILAS Sminar: introduction to physical anthropology（Kyoto University）
2012 Paleoanthropology（teaching assistant: University of Zurich）
2011-2013 Evolutionary and functional morphology of primates（teaching assistant: University of Zurich）
2010-2012 Geometric morphometrics（teaching assistant: University of Zurich）
Publications
Publications
Conference presentations
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2014. Neutral and adaptive evolution of femoral morphology: a comparative study of developmental variation within and between Pan taxa. The 83rd Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Calgary, Canada.
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2013. Femoral morphology and evolution of hominoid locomotion: insight from fetuses of humans and great apes. The 82nd Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Knoxville, Tennessee, US.
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2012. Structure-function-phylogeny relationship of hominoids: a morphometric mapping study of perinatal femoral morphology in humans and great apes. The 66th Annual meeting of the anthropological society of Japan Kanagawa, Japan.
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2012. Ontogenetic patterns of long bone shape of humans and great apes. The 81st Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Portland, Oregon, US.
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2010. Ontogenetic patterns of long bone shape of humans and great apes. The 79th Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.
Morimoto N. 2009. Ontogenetic patterns of sexual dimorphism in long bone shape of gorillas. The 63nd Annual meeting of the anthropological society of Japan. Tokyo, Japan.
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2009. Visualization and quantitative analysis of morphological variation of long bone shape in human and great apes. The 1st International Symposium of Biological Shape Analysis. Tsukuba, Japan.
Morimoto N, Ponce de León M, Zollikofer CPE. 2008. Visualization and quantitative analysis of morphological variation of long bone shape in human and great ape fetuses. The 62nd Annual meeting of the anthropological society of Japan. Nagoya, Japan.
Conference presentations (coauthored)
Morita W, Morimoto N, Jernvall J. 2018. A morphometric mapping analysis of mice molar morphology. JOINT MEETING 6th International Conference of Rodent Biology and Management &16th Rodens et Spatium. Potsdam, Germany.
Tajika A, Morimoto N, Wani R, Klug C. 2017. Patterns of intraspecific variation in cephalopods - new data from 3D morphometry of Nautilus shells. GSA meeting. Seattle, Washington, US.
Morita W, Morimoto N, Ohshima H. 2016. Testing odontogenetic models in human molars: quantifying metameric variaton by morphometric mapping. Tooth Morphogenesis and Differentiation 2016. Porvoo, Finland.
Morita W, Morimoto N, Ida-Yonemochi H, Ohshima H. 2015. Quantitative analysis in mouse lower molars by means of morphometric mapping. Tripartite Conference on Tooth and Bone: Development & Regeneration. Narita, Japan.
Morita W, Morimoto N, Ida-Yonemochi H, Takeuchi K, Igarashi M, Ohshima H. 2015. Linking genotype to phenotype in mice molars by means of morphometric mapping. The 120th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Association of Anatomists. Kobe, Japan.
Nakatsukasa M, Mbua E, Morimoto N, Shimizu D, Yutaka K. 2014. Unique body proportions of Microcolobus. The 83rd Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Calgary, Canada.
Hatt J-M, Zollikofer CPE, Thali M, Kircher PR, Morimoto N, Ponce de León M. 2013. The virtual ape project – more than a source of anatomy for veterinarians, anthropologists and primatologists. The 45th Annual meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
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Professional appointments
2021- Associate professor (Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University)
2013-2021 Assistant professor (Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University)
2013 Post-doctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kyoto University; JSPS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
2012-2013 Post-doctoral fellow (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Education
2012 PhD (Dr. sc. nat., University of Zurich, Switzerland; Prof. Zollikofer and Dr. Ponce de León)
Thesis available online at: http://www.zora.uzh.ch/75807/
Dissertation committee: H. Bucher, M. Sánchez, H. Bagheri, C. van Schaik
2007 MSc (Kyoto University, Japan)
2005 BSc (Kyoto University, Japan)
Grants and Fellowships
2013-(2015)Grant for Post-doctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
"Indicators of locomotor and manipulative behaviors in hand and foot bones of hominoids"
2010 Schultz Foundation (University of Zurich)
Awards
2014 Best oral presentation (30th Annual meeting of Primate Society of Japan)
2012 Faculty award for excellent scientific work (Faculty of Natural Science, University of Zurich)
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