Frederick Edward Grine is an Americanpaleoanthropologist. He is a professor ofanthropology and anatomical sciences at theState University of New York at Stony Brook.

He received his bachelor's degree fromWashington & Jefferson College, and his Ph.D. from theUniversity of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1984.

His research focuses on thehominin fossil record, during thePliocene and earlyPleistocene and the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships through dental morphology. Among his most important works, has been the analysis ofdental microwear in order to reconstruct early hominin dietary habits. Together with his former graduate student, David Strait, he has also published influential studies of early hominin phylogenetic relationships.

Dr. Grine is a major proponent in the argument that species ofrobust australopithecine should be given their owngenus name,Paranthropus.^[1] He also argues that the genusAustralopithecus isparaphyletic which would require a new taxonomic designation for specimens included underAustralopithecus afarensis toPraeanthropus africanus.^[2]

He is the editor ofEvolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines (Transaction Publishers,ISBN 0-202-36137-3) and co-editor ofPrimate Phylogeny (Academic Press,ISBN 0-12-303960-6) and "The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo (Springer,ISBN 978-1-4020-9979-3)." He has also authored the widely used anatomical textbook,Regional Human Anatomy: a Laboratory Workbook for Use With Models And Prosections (McGraw-Hill College,ISBN 0-07-243888-6). In addition to this, Dr. Grine has published well over 150 peer-reviewed scientific research articles.

He is also known for his work in leading the team that dated theHofmeyr Skull, discovered in 1952, near the town ofHofmeyr, in theEastern Cape Province of South Africa, to 36,000 years before present.^[3] This skull probably represents the population ancestral to most modern living humans.^[4][5]

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