Cynthia Beall is an American physical anthropologist at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
15 Facts About Cynthia Beall
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Cynthia Beall's groundbreaking works among the Andean, Tibetan and East African highlanders are the basis of our knowledge on adaptation to hypoxic condition and how it influences the evolutionary selection in modern humans.
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Cynthia Beall is currently the Distinguished University Professor, and member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Cynthia M Beall completed a BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
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Cynthia Beall entered Pennsylvania State University to obtain MA in anthropology in 1972, and PhD in anthropology in 1976.
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Cynthia Beall joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the Case Western Reserve University as assistant professor in 1976.
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Cynthia Beall became an associate professor in 1982 and a full Professor in 1987.
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Cynthia Beall was designated the S Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology 1994, and the Distinguished University Professor in 2010.
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Cynthia Beall had served as President-elect, President, and Past-President of the Human Biology Council from 1991 to 1995.
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Cynthia Beall was the Chair-elect of the Section on Anthropology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995 and 2010.
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Cynthia Beall was the Chair of Section 51 Anthropology, Councilor, and Chair of Nominating Committee of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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Cynthia Beall hold the Chair of the US National Committee for the International Union of Biological Sciences.
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Cynthia Beall is the leading scientist in the study of high-altitude adaptation in humans, particularly in places where there is little air to breathe.
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An astonishing discovery of Beall is the convergent evolution in humans from her studies on other highlanders such as the Amhara in the high-plateau regions of northwest Ethiopia, the Omro people in the southwest Ethiopia, and the Aymara of the American Andes.
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Cynthia Beall found that these groups had adapted to low oxygen environment very differently from the Tibetans.