Acknowledgements

We thank the National Science Foundation for providing major support for this project through grant no. 0447271.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website are those of the individuals working on the project, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.  The University of Pennsylvania Research Fund and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science provided seed money to get the project off the ground.  We thank the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for support and access to the collections for CT scanning.  We also thank Drs. Ian Tattersall and Ken Mowbray of the American Museum of Natural History, as well as Dr. Ralph Holloway of Columbia University, for allowing specimens in their care to be scanned.  Dr. Morrie Kricun, Dr. Nick Bryan, Felicia Jefferson, Robert Powell and all the staff of the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania deserve our thanks for their help with various aspects of the scanning.  In particular, Robert Powell scanned over 1000 specimens for the project. 

We are indebted to Daniel Glotzer, Jason Lewis, Ariel Singer, Michael Campana and Reina Wong for assistance with transporting the specimens, archiving the data files, updating the online database, etc..  Alicia Harrison, Marc Meyer, Jason Lewis, and Ivy Wilkinson-Ryan played key roles in organizing and developing a database of information on a major portion of the Morton Collection, which formed the foundation of the present online database.  Michael Campana meticulously scoured the online database for errors and confusions.  Finally, we wish to thank Piper Silverman for designing this web site.

This project also owes a debt of gratitude to researchers who, in exchange for obtaining copies of scans we obtained, have generously agreed to allow us to make available additional scans from their own collections, for the greater good of science.  The following individuals have contributed substantially to the Archive:

Markus Bastir
Department of Paleobiology
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC
Jose Gutiérrez Abascal 2
28006 Madrid
Spain
Coordinated the contribution of 125 scans to ORSA (see the next two entries below)

Paul O’Higgins
Chair of Anatomy
Hull York Medical School
Functional Morphology and Evolution Research Unit
United Kingdom
Contributed scans of 75 monkeys (Cercocebus torquatus) to ORSA

Antonio Rosas
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Madrid, Spain
Contributed scans of 50 humans

Robert C. McCarthy
Lauren Butaric
Department of Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
Contributed 10 human and 22 non-human primate scans

Ralph Holloway
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
Allowed us to scan his entire collection of latex/plaster endocasts

The following people have obtained scans from ORSA for a variety of research projects:

Markus Bastir
Department of Paleobiology
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC
Jose Gutiérrez Abascal 2
28006 Madrid
Spain
Received 149 scans from ORSA

Cheryl Hill
Penn State University
Received 25 human and 16 non-human primate scans from ORSA

Robert C. McCarthy
Lauren Butaric
Department of Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
Received 31 human scans from ORSA

Mark Spencer
Caitlin Schrein
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Received 5 chimpanzee scans from ORSA

Adam P. Summers
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
321 Steinhaus Hall
University of California - Irvine
Received 9 human and 19 non-human scans from ORSA