RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Professor Daniel has research interests in animal communication, comparative auditory/ vestibular anatomy and pathology, human brain structure and function and the evolution of human speech and language. He is especially interested in sexual dimorphism as it relates to the aforementioned general research areas.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Otitis Media: a problem for the Physical Anthropologist, coauthored with Bob Fulghum, R. Schmidt and L. Ruckriegal, 1988 edition of The Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 31, 143-167, 1988
The vestibular system and language evolution, In Studies In Language Origins, Vol I, Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Col, Jan Wind et al., eds. 257-271, 1989
Are male and female Homo sapiens selected for different auditory tasks? In Studies in Language Origins, Vol III, Walberga Von Raffler-Engle, ed. Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Co. pp. 65-75, 1991
In the ear of the beholder, American Scientist, 80(3), 214, May-June, 1992
A much-too-brief evolutionary history of the mammalian middle ear, Studies In Language Origins, Vol. III, Jan Wind, ed. Amsterdam: Benjamin Publishing Company, pp. 21-29, 1994
Mode de naissance et otite muqueuse (Manner of birth and otitis media) co-authored with C.J. Mansfield, E.A. Sumpter and J. Barnes, Archives Francaises de Pediatrie, 50, 97-100, 1993
Predicting species by call in three species of North Carolina Cicadas, co-suthored with Cliff Knight, Tim Charles, and Alan Larkins, Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 109(2), 67-76, 1993
Aging and otitis media as sources of variance in the rat auditory brainstem response, co-authored with Donal Campbell and Garrett Hume, Hearing Research, 70(1), 127-130, 1993
Gender differences in lateralized patterns for speaking and singing, Co-authored with Monica Hough, Michel Snow, Kevin O'Brien and Garrett Hume, Neuropsychologia, 32(9), 1067-1078, 1994
A reevaluation of the cold water etiology of external auditory exostoses, co-authored with Dale Hutchinson, Chris Denise and Gerhard Kalmus, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 103, 417-422, 1997
Whales and terrestrial mammals, chapter in North Carolina Scientist's Speak Out On Evolution, co-authored with Charles Singhas, North Carolina Academy of Science, Mary Beth Thomas, ed., pp. 27-28, 1997
Division on the Internet, letter published in Science 14 Aug. Vol. 281, p. 992, 1998
Neutraceuticals, letter published in Science 3 Dec. Vol. 286, pp. 1854-55, 1999
Otitis Media: An Evolutionary Perspective, chapter in EvolutionaryMedicine, W.T. Trevathan et al., eds. Oxford University Press, pp. 75-100, 1999
Sounds of sex and death in the sea: bottlenose dolphins whistles suppress mating coursed of silva perch, co-authored with J.J.Luczkovich et. al., Bioacoustics 10, 323-34, 2000.
In addition to science writing, Professor Daniel has published 6 volumes of poetry. He has more than 500 poems appearing in various national and international small press and literary magazines. He has published poems in 48 states of the U.S.
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COURSES TAUGHT
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Animal Behavior
The Research Process (honors)
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi
Phi Kappa Phi
The Language Origins Society
The Association for Research in Otolaryngology
The American Association of Physical Anthropology.
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HONORS
Professor Daniel has won the Robert and Lina Mays Teaching Excellent Award (1976-77) and the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award (1982). He served as chapter president of the Society of Sigma Xi (1993-94) and presently chairs the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Selection Committee.
Outstanding Teacher Award, Dept. of Biology, 1999-2000.
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Along with Professors Joe Luczkovich and Mark Sprague, Professor Daniel has been working on a $160,000 Division of Marine Fisheries grant entitled, "Characterization of Sciaenid Spawning Site by Hydroacoustic surveys".
Professor Daniel's latest poetry collection, Moksha, was just published by Chiron Review Press, St. John, Kansas. |
