Conrad B. Quintyn

Dr. Conrad B. Quintyn is professor of biological anthropology at Commonwealth University--Bloomsburg, PA.17815, U.S.A. He was educated at Baylor University (B.A., 1991), University of Michigan (M.A., 1993), and University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1999). From 2000 to 2001, he taught at Iowa State University. From 2001 to 2002, he worked as a biological anthropologist for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command [JPAC] Laboratory (currently called Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency [DPAA]) located on Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii. There he conducted search, recovery, and identification of the remains of U.S. soldiers listed as missing-in-action from World War II and the Vietnam War. Occasionally, he assists the Pennsylvania State Police in the recovery and identification of human remains His interests include worldwide postcranial variation (i.e., osteometric analysis of skeletal collections in various domestic and international museums), evolutionary biology, the problem of species, evolution of human diseases, and forensic anthropology. Genetic engineering and medical genetics have been an interest (and concern) of Dr. Quintyn since his postgraduate studies in biological anthropology. As a student of evolutionary biology, he praises the scientific breakthroughs in biotechnology leading to cures for some diseases. But, he worries about the impact of genetic engineering on future evolutionary change. Dr. Quintyn has collected human skeletal data from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the Natural History Museum, London, UK; the Museum National D’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; and the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. He is the editor of an academic text titled Readings in Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of Modern Morphology (San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing) published in summer 2021.