Jeffrey Meldrum
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D. Jeffrey Meldrum (born 1958) is a Full Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and a Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Meldrum is also Adjunct Professor of Occupational and Physical Therapy.
Meldrum is an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates.[1]
Biography
Meldrum received his B.S. in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1982, his M.S. at BYU in 1984 and a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in biological anthropology, from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1991. Meldrum worked at Northwestern University's Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of Idaho State University where he currently teaches.
Meldrum has published several academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch and is a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. Meldrum also coedited From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking with Charles E. Hilton. He edited the textbook From Biped to Strider (Springer, 2004)
Meldrum has attracted media attention due to his interest in Bigfoot.[2][1][3] Skeptic Brian Dunning writes that "The work of responsible scientists like Dr. Meldrum is exactly what true skeptics should be asking the Bigfoot community for, not criticizing him for it."[4]
Meldrum was present at a 2011 expedition to Siberia to attempt to locate the Yeti. However, despite his belief in the existence of the Yeti, he publicly acknowledged that the results of the Russian expedition were most likely fraudulent. He claimed the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity.[5]
Meldrum has also studied and commented upon issues of genetics and the Book of Mormon including his paper "Who Are the Children of Lehi?" written with Trent D. Stephens.
References
- ^ a b "Bigfoot Anatomy" by Marguerite Holloway, Scientific American, December 2007.
- ^ "Bigfoot research makes professor a campus outcast" by Jesse Harlan Alderman, Associated Press, November 3, 2006. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- ^ Meldrum's Evaluation of Sasquatch Footprints
- ^ Brian Dunning (2006-12-03). "Killing Bigfoot with Bad Science: Is anyone doing any justice to the Bigfoot claim? ". Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ^ http://www.aol.com/2011/11/22/yeti-siberian-snowman-evidence_n_1107370.html#s388533