23 Facts About Nina Jablonski

Nina Grace Jablonski was born on August 20,1953 and is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans.

Nina Jablonski is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism.

Nina Jablonski is an Evan Pugh University Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, and the author of the books Skin: A Natural History, Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color, and the co-author of Skin We Are In.

Nina Jablonski instantly decided that she wanted to pursue the study of human evolution, dismissing her parents' desire for her to attend medical school.

Nina Jablonski has held teaching positions at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Western Australia.

Nina Jablonski is married to George Chaplin, a geospatial scientist, who is another professor as well as her research collaborator at Penn State University.

Nina Jablonski began research in cooperation with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing in 1982 and the Kunming Institute of Zoology in 1984.

Nina Jablonski took over the organization of the paleoenvironmental conferences and the editing of the conference proceedings after the deaths of the Whytes.

Nina Jablonski felt that the study of such topics was valuable for researchers because it showed that basic tools of comparative and historical biology could be used to deduce what probably happened in the past.

Nina Jablonski is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology at Penn State.

Nina Jablonski is known for her research into human skin, and has published two books on the subject.

Nina Jablonski has taken this connection and applied it to understanding the effects of modern lifestyles on human health.

Nina Jablonski connects certain diseases and health risks to people living in areas distant from those of their ancestors and to people who are living the modern indoors lifestyle.

Since 2010, Nina Jablonski has focused much of her research on understanding the link between skin color and the creation of color-based races during the European Enlightenment.

Nina Jablonski's work has led to significant discoveries including an ape cranium in China, and the first identified chimpanzee fossils.

In 2004, along with Sally McBrearty, Nina Jablonski discovered teeth in the collections of the National Museum of Kenya which originated from the Kapthurin Formation and dated back to ~545,000 years ago.

Nina Jablonski's research is central to modern understanding of extinct Theropithecus size, habitat, and diet, much of which is detailed in Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, edited by Jablonski.

Nina Jablonski has written textbook analyses of the fossil record of tarsiers, gibbons, and Cercopithecoidea as a whole.

In 1994, Nina Jablonski argued against a theory proposed by Peter Wheeler that thermoregulation played a role in hominids' transition to bipedalism.

Nina Jablonski's team constructed their own models, which led to the conclusion that thermoregulatory benefits weren't significant enough for natural selection to favor bipedalism.

In 2014, Nina Jablonski began researching the adaptation of goose bumps because she was interested in the connection between the integument of ring-tailed lemurs and thermoregulation.

Nina Jablonski made connections between goose bumps and brain size, as the ability to regulate body temperature without changes in metabolism seemed to her a necessary adaptation to accommodate the thermal and metabolic sensitivities of larger brains.

Nina Jablonski is interested in exploring how the behaviors of ring-tailed lemurs relate to thermoregulation.