Timothy Bromage

Professor
Biomaterials
New York University
United States of America

Doctor Dentistry
Biography

PhD, Biological Anthropology, University of Toronto 1986 MA, Biological Anthropology, University of Toronto 1980 BA, Anthropology, Biology, Geology, California State University, Sonoma 1978

Research Intrest

Professor Bromage supplements laboratory research with African Late Pliocene paleontological fieldwork of significance to human evolutionary research, the surveys of which have recovered the oldest known representative of the human genus, Homo rudolfensis, 2.4 Ma, as well as its contemporary, Paranthropus boisei, from the shores of Lake Malawi. Fieldwork on Late Pleistocene pygmy elephant and pygmy hippopotamus localities in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are also ongoing, which provides a natural experiment of relevance to interpretations of modern human dental reduction. The integration of graphic and heuristic elements in the digital photomicrography of bone and tooth microanatomy is important to Professor Bromage, who presents the work as abstract art; his exhibit is currently touring Europe. Images include a variety of subjects of relevance to his equally integrative research agenda, from images of gene knockout mice in novel cancer research, to human evolutionary studies including micro-anatomical images from the bones of "Lucy" (a representative of the earliest humans from Ethiopia, ca. 3.0 Ma).

List of Publications
2012 Dirks W, Bromage TG, Agenbroad L D. The duration and rate of molar plate formation in Palaeoloxodon cypriotes and Mammuthus columbi from dental histology. Quarternary International 255: 79-85.
2012 Caufield PW, Li Y, Bromage TG. Hypoplasia-Associated Severe Early Childhood Caries – A Proposed Definition. Journal of Dental Research 91: 544-550.
2012 Bromage TG, Hogg RT, Lacruz RS, Hou C. Primate enamel evinces long period biological timing and regulation of life history. Journal of Theoretical Biology 305: 131-144.
Bromage TG(2015) Long in the tooth :straitions in teeth reveal the pace of life natutral history 123: 16-21.