Jill Scott

Jill Scott is a biological anthropologist and laboratory coordinator in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her areas of expertise include human evolution, paleoanthropology, skeletal biology, primate anatomy and the fossil record of early humans.

Scott’s research focuses on the craniofacial evolution of Middle and Late Pleistocene Homo and the anatomy of early human ancestors. She is a member of the international research team studying and describing Homo naledi, the hominin species discovered in South Africa. She has coauthored multiple scholarly publications on the skeletal anatomy of Homo naledi and has conducted collaborative research on the species’ hand anatomy.  Her work combines field and laboratory research to better understand human origins, evolutionary relationships and the biological changes that shaped modern humans.

Scott received her master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Iowa, her  bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and her associate degree from McHenry County College.