Zach Throckmorton

I am an anatomical scientist and paleoanthropologist. For over a decade, I've trained first-year medical students in gross anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroanatomy. Here at CSU, I serve as the Medical Human Anatomy Director for the Colorado University School of Medicine's Fort Collins Branch. My students and peers have honored me with many teaching awards at the departmental and institutional levels.

My two main research programs focus on exploring the evolution of human anatomy in the context of modern human anatomical variation, and how comparative anatomy is relevant to the study of human anatomy within the context of the One Health paradigm. Research projects I've contributed to (the discoveries of the extinct hominin Homo naledi and the oldest known case of cancer in a human fossil) have made international headlines. I've published in academic journals such as the Journal of Anatomy and Nature Communications and have been invited symposium speaker at annual meetings of both the American Association for Anatomy and American Association of Biological Anthropology.  

When I'm not working, I enjoy traveling, hiking (especially in nearby Rocky Mountain National Park during the winter), gaming, and reading.