Regular biography
KONDO Osamu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Tokyo, School of Science. His research focuses on paleoanthropology, skeletal morphology, and human evolution, with specific interests in Neandertals, skeletal growth, and the Jomon period. He is affiliated with both the undergraduate and graduate departments of Biological Sciences. His work explores human variation and adaptation through the study of skeletal and dental morphology.
Scholar-generated biography
Osamu Kondo, affiliated with the University of Tokyo, specializes in Physical Anthropology. His research explores Neanderthal biology, focusing on brain development, infant burials, and cranial morphology. Kondo's work includes analyzing Neanderthal brain size at birth, reconstructing Neanderthal brains using computational anatomy, and examining Neanderthal infant burials from the Dederiyeh Cave in Syria. He also investigates human bony labyrinth as an indicator of population history and dispersal from Africa. Additionally, Kondo studies ancient Jomon genomes to understand early East Asian migration patterns and examines cranial nonmetric variation in Ainu and Ryukyuan populations. His research contributes to understanding human evolution, life history, and genetic determinants of traits like shovel-shaped incisors.