Professor Emerita
The Department of Anthropology and Human Development is saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Parker on August 26, 2023. Her obituary can be found here.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkley 1973
Biological Anthropology, human development, infant development in humans and non-human primates, evolution of intelligence, macaques, chimpanzees, gorillas
Darwin’s Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution. Sue T. Parker and Karin Enstam Jaffe, Alta Mira Press 2008.
Biology and Knowledge Revisited: From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis. Edited by Sue Parker, Jonas Langer, and Constance Milbrath, Erlbaum, 2005.
Piaget’s Legacy in Cognitive Constructivism, Phenotype Development and Evolution. In Biology and Knowledge Revisited. Parker, Langer and Milbrath (eds.), Erlbaum, 2005.
Piaget’s Phenocopy Model Revisited: A Brief History of Ideas about the Origins of Adaptive Genetic Variations. In Biology and Knowledge Revisited. Parker, Langer and Milbrath (eds.), Erlbaum, 2005
Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Ethology: Contrasting But Compatible Approaches. In Animal Cognition. C. Allen, M. Bekoff, and G. Burghardt (eds.), M.I.T. Press, 2002.
The Evolutionary Relationship Between Molar Eruption and Cognitive Development. In Human Evolution Through Developmental Change. Nancy Minugh-Purvis and Michael McKinney (eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Brains, Biology, and Behavior: The Evolution of Human Behavioral Ontogeny. Edited by Sue Parker, Michael McKinney and Jonas Langer, School of American Research Press, 2000.
Homo erectus Infancy and Childhood: The Turning Point in the Evolution of Hominid Behavioral Ontogeny. In Biology, Bodies and Behavior: The Evolution of Human Development. Sue Parker, Michael McKinney and Jonas Langer (eds.), School of American Research Press, 2000.
Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology, and Psychology: Convergences in the Study of Human Behavioral Ontogeny. In Biology Bodies and Behavior: The Evolution of Human Development. Sue Parker, Michael McKinney and Jonas Langer (eds.), School of American Research Press, 2000.
Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans. Sue Parker and Michael McKinney, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999.