Trenton Holliday is a paleoanthropologist who has was involved in the discovery of Homo naledi, found in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa in 2015. Holliday, along with his team, analyzed the body size and proportions of the fossil.
Holliday is a professor and Anthropology Department Chair at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches human evolution, function morphology, and modern human adaptation and variation. He studies the origins of Homo sapiens, origin of the genus Homo, the fate of the Neanderthals, hybridization among extant mammals, and late Australopithecus.
Holliday got his B.A. in anthropology from Louisiana State University (1988) and M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) in anthropology in the University of New Mexico.
Selected publications
| Publication date | Name of publication |
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| June 2019 | |
| September 2015 | Homo Naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa |
| August 2014 | Craniofacial Feminization, social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity |
| April 2013 | The Upper Limb of Australopithecus sediba |
| December 2012 | Body Size, Body Shape, and the Circumscription of the Genus Homo |
| November 2009 | Body proportions of circumpolar people as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island Inuit |
| January 2008 | Evolution at the Crossroads: Modern Human Emergence in Western Asia |
| December 2003 | Species Concepts, Reticulation, and Human Evolution |
| December 2003 | The Origin of Modern Human Behavior |
| August 2002 | Neandertal cold adaptation: Physiological and energetic factors |
| August 2001 | Relative variation in human proximal and distal limb segment lengths |
| August/October 2000 | Activity, Climate, and Postcranial Robusticity |
| May 1999 | Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans |
| December 1998 | Ecogeographical patterning and stature prediction in fossil hominids: Comment on M.R. Feldesman and R.L. Fountain, American Journal of Physical Anthropology |
| December 1998 | Postcranial evidence of cold adaptation in European Neandertals |
| May 1997 | Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins |
| May 1997 | Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo |
| September 1996 | Morphological affinities of the proximal ulna from Classes River main site: archaic or modern? |
| August 1995 | Lower limb length of European early modern humans in relation to mobility and climate |