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Don Jeffrey "Jeff" Meldrum (born May 24, 1958) is a 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 Stony Brook University in 1989 (then referred to as State University of New York at Stony Brook). 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 numerous academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch (Bigfoot) 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.[2]

Meldrum has attracted media attention due to his interest in Bigfoot.[1][3][4][5] 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."[6]

Meldrum was present at a 2011 conference in Siberia regarding the Siberian Snowman, which included among other things investigating alleged footprints that had been spotted in a Kemerovo cave. He acknowledged that the results of the Russian field trip to the cave site were most likely fraudulent. He suggested that the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity.[7]

Meldrum, who is an "active member"[8] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has also studied and commented upon issues of genetics and the Book of Mormon in his book "Who Are the Children of Lehi?", written with Trent D. Stephens.

References

  1. ^ a b Holloway, Marguerite (December 1, 2007). "Bigfoot Anatomy". Scientific American.
  2. ^ Meldrum, Jeffrey; Hilton, Charles. From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ISBN 978-0-306-48000-3.
  3. ^ "Bigfoot Research Makes Professor A Campus Outcast". CBS San Francisco. 3 November 2006. Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  4. ^ "Meldrum's Evaluation of Sasquatch Footprints". Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
  5. ^ "Bigfoot - Science Vs by Gimlet Media". gimletmedia.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  6. ^ Dunning, Brian (3 December 2006). "Skeptoid #11: Killing Bigfoot with Bad Science". Skeptoid. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  7. ^ Speigel, Lee (2011-11-22). "Yeti Evidence Falls Flat: Scientist Says Local Officials Staged Siberian Snowman Hunt For Publicity". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  8. ^ Meldrum, Jeffrey (2003-01-31). "Who Are the Children of Lehi?". Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. Volume 12: 14 – via https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help); External link in |via= (help)
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