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  • Michael Schillaci
    • Michael Schillaci
    • Associate Professor
    • MW 340
    • (416) 287-7328
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Research Interests & Work in Progress

  • Primate Zoology: growth and development, hybridization, morphology
  • Medical Primatology: bidirectional pathogen transmission, radiography
  • Osteology: osteometric variation, quantitative genetics, paleopathology

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

  • Biological Anthropology: Beginnings

Awards & Grants

  • 2006 SSHRC Standard Research Grant
  • Connaught Fund New Staff Matching Grant awarded in 2004
  • SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) awarded in 2005

Publications

  • Schillaci MA, Lischka AR, Karamitsos AA, Engel GA, Paul N, Ramoul R, Rompis A, Putra A, Wandia IN, Jones-Engel L. 2010 Radiographic measurement of the cardiothoracic ratio in a feral population of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Radiography 16: 163-166.
  • Schillaci MA, Engel GA, Fuentes A, Rompis A, Putra A, Wandia IN, Bailey JA, Brogdon BG, Jones-Engel L. 2010. The not-so-sacred monkeys of Bali: A radiographic study of human-primate commensalisms. In Gursky-Doyen S, and Supriatna J. (eds). Indonesian Primates. New York: Springer. pp.249-256.
  • Schillaci MA. 2009. Latitudinal variation in cranial dimorphism in Macaca fascicularis. American Journal of Primatology 72(2):152-160.
  • Schillaci MA, Irish JD, Wood CCE. 2009. Further analysis of the population history of ancient Egyptians. American Journal of Physical Anthropology ahead of print, doi 10.1002/ajpa20976.U
  • Schillaci MA, Meijaard, T Clark 2009. The effect of Island area on body size in a primate species from the Sunda Shelf Islands. Journal of Biogeaography 36:362-371.
  • Schillaci MA, Schillaci ME. 2009. Estimating the probability that the sample mean is within a desired fraction of the standard deviation of the true mean. Journal of Human Evolution 56(2).