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• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Toronto (Canada) 2021
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Selig, K. R., and M. T. Silcox. “Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 947–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09623-7.
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    • Sehgal, R. K., A. P. Singh, C. C. Gilbert, B. A. Patel, C. J. Campisano, K. R. Selig, R. Patnaik, and N. P. Singh. “Corrigendum: A new genus of treeshrew and other micromammals from the middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar, Udhampur District, Jammu and Kashmir, India (Journal of Paleontology (2022) DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2022.41).” Journal of Paleontology, January 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.68.
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    • Selig, K. R., A. E. Chew, and M. T. Silcox. “Dietary shifts in a group of early Eocene euarchontans (Microsyopidae) in association with climatic change.” Palaeontology 64, no. 5 (September 1, 2021): 609–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12544.
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    • Selig, Keegan R., and Mary T. Silcox. “The largest and earliest known sample of dental caries in an extinct mammal (Mammalia, Euarchonta, Microsyops latidens) and its ecological implications.” Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (September 2021): 15920. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95330-x.
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    • Selig, Keegan R., Kornelius Kupczik, and Mary T. Silcox. “The effect of high wear diets on the relative pulp volume of the lower molars.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174, no. 4 (April 2021): 804–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24242.
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    • Silcox, Mary T., Keegan R. Selig, Thomas M. Bown, Amy E. Chew, and Kenneth D. Rose. “Cladogenesis and replacement in the fossil record of Microsyopidae (?Primates) from the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.” Biology Letters 17, no. 2 (February 2021): 20200824. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0824.
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    • Selig, K. R., L. Schroeder, and M. T. Silcox. “Intraspecific variation in molar topography of the early Eocene stem primate Microsyops latidens (Mammalia, ?Primates).” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41, no. 4 (January 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1995738.
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    • Selig, Keegan R., Waqqas Khalid, and Mary T. Silcox. “Mammalian molar complexity follows simple, predictable patterns.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, no. 1 (January 2021): e2008850118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008850118.
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    • Selig, K. R., E. J. Sargis, S. G. B. Chester, and M. T. Silcox. “Using three-dimensional geometric morphometric and dental topographic analyses to infer the systematics and paleoecology of fossil treeshrews (Mammalia, Scandentia).” Journal of Paleontology 94, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 1202–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.36.
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    • Burrows, Anne M., Leanne T. Nash, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Mary T. Silcox, Sergi López-Torres, and Keegan R. Selig. “Dental Signatures for Exudativory in Living Primates, with Comparisons to Other Gouging Mammals.” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 303, no. 2 (February 2020): 265–81. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24048.
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    • Selig, Keegan R., Sergi López-Torres, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Leanne T. Nash, Anne M. Burrows, and Mary T. Silcox. “A Novel Method for Assessing Enamel Thickness Distribution in the Anterior Dentition as a Signal for Gouging and Other Extractive Foraging Behaviors in Gummivorous Mammals.” Folia Primatologica; International Journal of Primatology 91, no. 4 (January 2020): 365–84. https://doi.org/10.1159/000502819.
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    • Selig, K. R., E. J. Sargis, and M. T. Silcox. “The frugivorous insectivores? Functional morphological analysis of molar topography for inferring diet in extant treeshrews (Scandentia).” Journal of Mammalogy 100, no. 6 (December 19, 2019): 1901–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz151.
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    • Selig, K. R., S. López-Torres, E. J. Sargis, and M. T. Silcox. “First 3D Dental Topographic Analysis of the Enamel-Dentine Junction in Non-Primate Euarchontans: Contribution of the Enamel-Dentine Junction to Molar Morphology.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 587–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-9440-2.
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    • Selig, Keegan R., Eric J. Sargis, and Mary T. Silcox. “Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Treeshrew (Scandentia) Lower Molars: Insight into Dental Variation and Systematics.” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 302, no. 7 (July 2019): 1154–68. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24105.
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    • López-Torres, S., K. R. Selig, K. A. Prufrock, D. Lin, and M. T. Silcox. “Dental topographic analysis of paromomyid (Plesiadapiformes, Primates) cheek teeth: more than 15 million years of changing surfaces and shifting ecologies^*.” Historical Biology 30, no. 1–2 (February 17, 2018): 76–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1289378.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • EVANTH 334L: Human Osteology 2022

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