Ralph Leslie Holloway Jr. (February 6, 1935 – March 12, 2025) was an Americanphysical anthropologist atColumbia University and research associate with theAmerican Museum of Natural History. Since obtaining his Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1964, Holloway served as a professor ofanthropology at Columbia. Holloway's interests were incraniology, producingendocasts, primate behavior,biology of gender,sexual dimorphism in thecorpus callosum, and other topics. He developed the subdiscipline ofhomininpaleoneurology.[1]
Holloway was born inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] His work on theTaung Child was one of the first to suggest brain reorganization occurring before the increase of brain size in hominids. His claim that the lunate sulcus, a sulcus which marks the boundary of the occipital lobe, was in a posterior position to that of apes suggests that the reduction of the occipital lobe was accompanied by enlargements of parts of the brain associated with higher cognitive function.[3] Holloway died in New York City on March 12, 2025, at the age of 90.[2]
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