Biography

Dr. Alexis S. Uluutku is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Graduate Faculty Scholar in the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences at the UCF College of Medicine. She currently teaches Human Physiology Labs, Human Anatomy, and Honors Human Anatomy.

Dr. Uluutku is a human evolutionary anatomist and paleobiologist whose research focuses on the hominin fossil record between 2-1 million years ago in eastern Africa. She received her doctorate (Ph.D.) in Human Paleobiology from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. under Dr. Bernard Wood (Ph.D., D.Sc.) at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology. Her research methods include 3D scanning, geometric morphometrics, and traditional osteometric analysis and regression. 

Publications:

Uluutku, A. (2024).  “The Role of Character Displacement and Ecological Niche Incumbency in Hominin Evolution.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Print.

Uluutku, A., Wood, B. (2023). Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present. In: Companion to Physical Anthropology. Ed. C.S. Larsen. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Wood, B., & Uluutku, A. (2023). The Inevitably Incomplete Story of Human Evolution.  American Scientist, 111(2), 106-113.

Wood, B., & Williams, A. (2020). Meet Your Exotic, Extinct Close Relative. American Scientist, 108(6), 348-356.