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Noel T. Boaz , Ph.D., M.D. is founder and President of the nonprofit Integrative Centers for Science and Medicine in Martinsville, Virginia, U.S.A. He founded in 1984 and served as first Director of Virginia's state museum, the Virginia Museum of Natural History. He was educated at the University of Virginia where he was a University Major in Physical Anthropology, and at the University of California at Berkeley where he received his Ph.D. degree in Biological Anthropology in 1977. Boaz held academic appointments in Anthropology and/or Anatomy at UCLA, New York University, George Washington University, Ross University School of Medicine, Libyan International Medical University, and Emory & Henry College School of Health Sciences. His doctoral research was conducted in the lower Omo River Valley of southern Ethiopia as a member of the Omo Research Expedition, directed by F. Clark Howell. He discovered, reconstructed, and published with Howell a 1.8-million-year-old partial skull of Homo habilis, the first record of that species to be found outside of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. He expanded his Berkeley doctoral dissertation into his book Eco Homo, published in 1997. While at UCLA Boaz initiated research at the seven-million-year-old fossil site of Sahabi in the northern Sahara Desert of Libya, now one of the best known fossil faunas of Africa. He discovered Libya’s first fossil primates, two species of cercopithecoid monkeys and putative hominoid remains whose significance and relationship to Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the earliest hominid, are subjects of ongoing research. Boaz’s work at Sahabi was interrupted in 2011 by the Libyan civil war but is continuing under the aegis of the East Libya Neogene Research Project, of which he serves as international director. Research by the ELNRP has resulted in a monograph and two multi-authored journal issues edited by Boaz, and over 50 scientific publications. Boaz carried out paleoanthropological research in the African Western Rift Valley of the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire), facilitated by a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Kinshasa in 1983-84. The results of this large NSF-sponsored project received monographic treatment in 1990 in the first Memoir of the Virginia Museum of Natural History, which included publication of a significant Pliocene fauna from Africa’s Western Rift Valley and some of the earliest Congolese human fossil remains, now housed in the D.R. Congo National Museum, Kinshasa. From 1985 to 1990 Boaz served as Founding Director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History and its Curator of Biological Anthropology, and since 2008 he has been Senior Fellow of the museum, which awards a "Noel T. Boaz Director's Award" in his honor. Boaz’s museological work includes curating the exhibits “Libya Before the Sahara” at the new Benghazi University Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology, which he assisted in designing, in Libya in 2010, and “Australopithecine! – The Evolution of Hominids” at the VMNH and Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. Boaz published a revision of the taxon Australopithecus afarensis for the 1988 Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. In 1992-93 Boaz was Meyerhoff Visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, resulting in his book on the classic Homo erectus site of Zhoukoudian, China, Dragonbone Hill, co-authored with Russell Ciochon. Boaz is the author of the entry on Zhoukoudian in the International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. In 1997 Boaz and co-author Alan Almquist published a leading textbook Biological Anthropology, A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution, which went into subsequent editions. After serving as Professor and Chair of Anatomy for three years, Boaz earned his M.D. degree at Saba University School of Medicine in the Netherlands Antilles in 2004 and began a research program in clinical anatomy and evolutionary medicine. His 2002 book Evolving Health presented his “evo-devo” and anthropological approach to framing the modern biomedical paradigm. He continues to work in Evolutionary Medicine and to develop a new curricular model for medical schools. A major teaching interest is laboratory-based anthropological anatomy using soft-embalming. Boaz currently heads the nonprofit Integrative Centers for Science and Medicine in Martinsville, Virginia. He continues his paleoanthropological and anatomical lab research at the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, now part of ICSM, and pursues his museum-based research as a Senior Fellow at VMNH.
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Stratigraphy and Timescales (2023): 269-308
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The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropologypp.1-3, (2018)
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