Dr. Emiliano Bruner and Paleoneurology

Luca Fiorenza
July 4, 2017

A month ago, we have had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Emiliano Bruner, one of the major experts on paleoneurology and cranial functional morphology. He gave a wonderful lecture on paleoneurology in our human anatomy course, and he has also given a wonderful seminar titled “Paleoneurology and morphological integration: a perspective in medicine and evolution”.

A big thanks to Dr. Bruner. You can follow his blog full of very interesting articles on human evolution, and in particular on paleoneurology:

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/

Luca

Luca Fiorenza

Luca is Head of the Palaeodiet Research Lab and he received his Bachelor/Master degree in Natural Sciences in 2003 at La Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), and completed his PhD in Biological Sciences between the Goethe University and the Senckenberg Research Institute (Frankfurt, Germany) at the end of 2009. During his doctoral degree he was part of an outstanding multidisciplinary network called EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network), where he mastered cutting-edge techniques for the study of anatomical variability, including medical imaging, 3D digitisation, display, modelling and programming. Luca’s research interests mostly focus on functional morphology of the masticatory apparatus in human and non-human primates, and on the importance of the role of diet in human evolution.