Jeanelle Uy
Jeanelle Uy is a biological anthropologist whose scholarly interest focuses on how the abdomen and the bones that surround it evolved to support pregnancy and childbirth. Her research involves topics related to human and non-human primate anatomical variation, reproduction, and paleoanthropology. She earned her BA in Anthropology with a minor in Biology from Boston University in 2013 and then her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019. Her dissertation, 鈥淕ut size and its relationship with the ribcage and pelvis in humans and nonhuman primates鈥 studied sex variation in the abdominal organs, the ribcage, and the pelvis in humans, apes, and monkeys.
At 黑料网, Dr. Uy enjoys teaching biological anthropology courses related to human evolution, human osteology, human variation, and primate anatomy. Her current research projects investigate the evolution and variation of the torso anatomy in relation to sex, pregnancy, and childbirth.
human evolution, human variation, primate anatomy, paleoanthropology, reproductive biology, sex variation, evolution of childbirth, organ-skeleton relationships
ANTH 110: Introduction to Physical Anthropology
ANTH 315: Human Variation
ANTH 402: Evolutionary Theory
ANTH 434: Primate Evolution
ANTH 435: Human Evolution
ANTH 438: Evolution of Sex & Reproduction
ANTH 439: Methods in Biological Anthropology
ANTH 480A: Human Osteology
ANTH 481: Forensic Anthropology
Romero, Olivia. and Uy, Jeanelle. (2025). 鈥淎ssessing the Pelvic Canal and Iliac Flare as Indicators of Gut Size.鈥 American Journal of Biological Anthropology 187, no. 4: e70097.
Uy, Jeanelle, Beresnevi膷i奴t臈, Gabriele, & Nguyen, Vyvy. (2024). The Relationship of the Lower Ribcage with Liver and Gut Size: Implications for Paleoanthropology. Humans, 4(4), 310-320.
Uy, Jeanelle. and Laudicina, Natalie M. (2021). Assessing the role of the pelvic canal in supporting the gut in humans. PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0258341.
