Scholars@Duke
Richard Frederick Kay

Richard Frederick Kay

Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology
richard.kay@duke.edu
Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383
0013 Biological Sciences Building, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants

Collaborative Research: Dental dynamics and catarrhine radiations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025

CSBR: Rescuing and Sharing a Unique and Irreplaceable Fossil Collection at the Duke Lemur Center

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

Hominin Dental Topography in 4D: A Novel Assessment of Diet

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation · 2021 - 2025

Recovering Paleogene and early Neogene Primates from Tropical South America

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation · 2019 - 2022

FESD Type I: Dynamics of Mountains, Landscapes and Climate Biodiversity Amazon/Andean Forest

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2020

Fossil Mammals and the Waning of the Mid-Miocene Climate Optimum in Patagonia

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geographic Society · 2017 - 2019

Recovering Paleogene Vertebrates from the Alto Río Madre de Dios, Peruvian Amazon

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geographic Society · 2017 - 2019

CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Miocene Colombian Vertebrates and Conservation of the Duke Lemur Center Fossil Collections

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2018

Collaborative Research: Calibrating Mid-Miocene Greenhouse Climate and Ecology in a Key High Southern Latitude Locale

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2017

Intraspecific Variation in Semicircular Canal Morphology in Platyrrhine Monkeys and its Implications Toward Locomotor Evolution in Anthropoids.

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation · 2013 - 2016

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Brain Size and Shape in Early Anthropoids

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 2015

RAPID: Recovery of Miocene Fossil Primates and Other Vertebrates from Threatened Localities along the Rio Santa Cruz, Argentina

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2014

Paleontological Recovery Miocene South American Fossil Monkeys And Other Mammals: Phylogeny, Adaptation And Community Structure

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2013

Collaborative Proposal: Excavation of Underwater Cavern Containing Primates and Archaeological Remains in Hispaniola

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2012

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Functional Analysis of Primate Semicircular Canal Morphology in Relation to Locomotor Head Accelerations

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2010

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: The Role of Binocular Vision in Primate Evolution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2008

Evaluating the contribution of Late Cretaceous Biogeography to Earliest Cenozoic Biodiversity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2002 - 2007

Paleontological Investigations to Recover Fossil Monkeys From the Middle Cenozoic of South America

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2006

The First Near-Complete Skull of a Late Cretaceous Multituberculate from North America: ...

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2005

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Late Eocene/Early Oligocene Climate Change

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2004

An environmental scanning electron microscope for DU

EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2003

Collaborative Research: Paleonotological Investigations To

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1994 - 2001

Paleontologic Recovery and Reconnaisance at Grant Barranca, Argentina

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1999 - 2000

Exploring For Paleogene Primates In Bolivia

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1992 - 1993

Paleontology And Geochronology Of The Middle Micene Of Sou

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1992 - 1993

Paleontology And Geochronology Of The Middle Miocene Of So

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1991 - 1993

Paleontology And Geochronology Of The Middle Miocene Of

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1990 - 1992

Dental Sexual Di-Morphism In The Catarrhine Primates

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1989 - 1991

Biochronology And Geochronology Of Friasian (Middle Miocen

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1989 - 1990

Collaborative Research: Biochronology And Geochronology Of

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1987 - 1989

Collaborative Research On Sexual Dimorphism In The Definit

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1986 - 1986

Collaborative Research On Sexual Dimorphism In The Dentit

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1984 - 1986