new user

[Tanya Suzanne Carey <T.S.Carey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello fellow paleonet users,
			I would like to introduce myself to you as a new user of 
the paleonet mailing service.  I have just started a PhD in the Department of Human 
Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Liverpool (I am a colleague of Patrick 
Quinney, for anyone who knows him). My subject area is very new to me, and therefore I 
would like to use this service in the hope of making new contacts in the field in which I 
am working, and also possibly get advice and maybe some direction to sources of 
information which would be of use to me.  My proposed area of research is not very 
clear to me yet, but my supervisor has given me a general direction to work in for the 
moment.  I will be looking into the energy costs and metabolic rates of early hominids, 
with the possibility of using computer generated simulations for modelling the costs for 
the common Chimpanzee.  I hope that this will be of use in refining the ecological 
models for early hominids.  Data on their home ranges and daily movements should be 
incorporated into my work.  I would also like to know which areas have been covered in 
the comparisons of Chimpanzee (common and pygmy) behaviour with hominid 
behaviour for the modelling of hominid ecology and Pleistocene environments.

I would be very grateful for any correspondance concerning these particular areas.

My E-mail address is : T.S.Carey@liverpool.ac.uk,

Thank-you for your attention, I hope to get some messages soon, 
				
			yours sincerely,
					Tanya Carey