Sang-Hee Lee
(Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1999 University of Michigan)

*** ON LEAVE Fall 2007 ***

Office: 1309A Watkins Hall
Phone: (951) 827-4388
E-mail: sang-hee.lee[at]ucr.edu
Website: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~shlee

Professor Lee is interested in the evolution of human morphological variation based on the fossil record and seeks to identify the causal mechanisms for the patterns observed in the human (and ancestral human) fossil record. Her research is multi-disciplinary in nature, bridging biology and anthropology: biology, in that the mechanisms of evolution and variation apply to all species; anthropology, as human evolution has been shaped by cultural factors. She has been active in five research topics: variation and taxonomy, longevity, sexual dimorphism, brain size, and sampling bias. All of these play an important role in human evolution, each with a long history of research. Her approach is focused on “excavating” new knowledge by rephrasing a question, redefining a concept, and developing innovative methods, all in ways that make it possible to get empirical information from fossil data that have not been possible before.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (click here for a complete list of publications and PDFs):

(2007) Keogh E, Lin J, Lee S-H and Van Herle H. Finding the most unusual time series subsequence: algorithms and applications. Knowledge and Information Systems 11(1):1-27.

(2007) Keogh E, Lonardi S, Ratanamahatana CA, Wei L, Lee S-H, Handley H. Compression-based data mining of sequential data. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 14(1):99-129.

(2007) Lee S-H. Hominid evolution: new research trends in paleoanthropology. Journal of the Korean Archaeological Society 64:141-191.  (In Korean, with English Abstract)

(2007) Wei L, Keogh E, Xi X, Lee S-H. Supporting anthropological research with an efficient rotation invariant shape similarity measurement.  Journal of Royal Society Interface 4(13):207-222.

(2007) Wolpoff MH, Lee S-H. Herto and the Neandertals: What can a 160,000-year-old African tell us about European Neandertal evolution? In: AR Sankhyan and VR Rao, editors.  Human Origins, Genome and People of India: Genomic, Palaeontological and Archaeological Perspectives.  New Delhi (India): Allied Publishers. Pp. 329-336.

(2006) Caspari R and Lee S-H. Is human longevity a consequence of cultural change or modern biology? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129(4):512-517.

(2006) Keogh E, Wei L, Xi X, Lee S-H and Vlachos M. LB_Keogh supports exact indexing of shapes under rotation invariance with arbitrary representations and distance measures. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2006), pp. 882-893.

(2006) Lee S-H. Patterns of dental sexual dimorphism in Krapina and Prêdmostí: a new approach. Periodicum Biologorum 108(4):417-424.

(2006) Wolpoff MH and Lee S-H. Variation in the habiline crania--must it be taxonomic? Human Evolution 21(1)71-84.

(2005) Ahern JCM, Hawks JD and Lee S-H. Neandertal taxonomy reconsidered . . . again: a response to Harvati et al (2004). Journal of Human Evolution 49(6):647-652.

(2005) Caspari R and Lee S-H. Taxonomy and longevity: a reply to Minichillo (2005). Journal of Human Evolution 49(5):646-649.

(2005) Caspari R and Lee S-H. Are OY ratios invariant?  A reply to Hawkes and O’Connell (2005). Journal of Human Evolution 49(5):654-659.

(2005)  Lee S-H. Patterns of size sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis: Another look. Homo--Journal of Comparative Human Biology 56(3):219-232.

(2005) Lee S-H. Is variation in cranial capacity of the Dmanisi sample too high to be from one species? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127(3):263-266.

(2005) Lee S-H and Wolpoff MH. Habiline variation: a new approach using STET. Theory in Biosciences 124(1):25-40.

(2004) Caspari R and Lee S-H. Older age becomes common late in human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101(30):10895-10900.

(2003) Lee S-H and Wolpoff MH. The pattern of Pleistocene human brain size evolution. Paleobiology 29(2):186-196.