Presentations:

2006 Do Early South Americans Show Biological Similarity to Australians?: Lagoa Santa in odontometric and craniometric perspective. With H, Umeda, A.R. Nelson, and C.L.Brace. The 75th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2006. Anchorage, Alaska: March 6-11.

2005 Gender and Brain, and Y-chromosome. Presented at Gender studies at Ferris University, Kanagawa, Japan, Dec 22, 2005.

2005 Brace’s Ainu-Samurai Hypothesis: From 1989 until today. Reanalysis of dental dimension data and craniofacial data. In the open-public talk at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Science of Nippon, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 5, 2005

2005 South Americans in Craniofacial metric and odontometoric Perspective: Lagoa Santa. Seminar presentation at National Science Museum of Tokyo, Department of Anthropology, Japan. June 22.

2005 Early South Americans in Craniofacial metric Perspective: Lagoa Santa. with A. R. Nelson, S. Austin, and C. L. Brace. The 74th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2005. Millwaukee,Wisconsin: April 6-9.

2004 Craniometric view from the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of East Asia: the Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and Minatogawa, in Symposium: Paleoanthropological Research at the Asian Frontiers. the seventy-third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tampa, Florida: April 14-17.

2004 A Odontometric and a craniometric perspective on past and present population relationships in East and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific, with C.Loring Brace, in Symposium: Paleoanthropological Research at the Asian Frontiers. the seventy-third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tampa, Florida: April 14-17.

2003 “New World Paleoindians in craniometric perspective: New Looks at Old Faces"

Noriko Seguchi, with A. R. Nelson, and C. Loring Brace. at the seventy-second Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

2002 Race and Gender: social and political constructs.

N Seguchi. in “Embodying Human Diversity.” in Commission Symposia at Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, September. 22-27, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.

2002 “Race:” is not a Valid Biological Concept.

N C. L. Brace and N Seguchi. in “Racializing the Human body: A Cross Cultural Perspective.” in Inter-Congress Symposia at Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, September. 22-27, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.

2002 The Anthropology of Malocclusion: Crowding and Anomalies in the Japanese.

N. Seguchi, H. Oe. . at the seventy-first Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

2002 Human Evolution: A Neanderthal Skeleton in a sapiens Closet. C. L. Brace, N Seguchi, C. Quintyn. at the seventy-first Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

2001 The Craniofacial morphometric picture of prehistoric and recent Japan in comparison with Northeast and Southeast Asia. N. Seguchi, C. Loring Brace and H. Oe. Presented in the symposium, “Molecules and Morphology: Comparisons of Recent Living Human Populations” (C. Loring Brace, Organizer) at the seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

2001 Morphometric and molecular perspectives on the comparison of human populations. C. Loring Brace, N. Seguchi, and A. R. Nelson. Presented in the symposium, “Molecules and Morphology: Comparisons of Recent Living Human Populations” (C. Loring Brace, Organizer) at the seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

2000 A comparative craniofacial analysis of 24 Asian and Pacific populations using the neighbor-joining method. N. Seguchi and C. Loring Brace. Presented at the sixty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

1999 Association between occlusal form and tooth wear. Presented at the sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

1998 Secular change of Japanese occlusion: the frequency of the overbite and its association with food preparation techniques and eating habits. Presented at the sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

1997 Drawing the Borders: Sexual, Racial, and National Boundaries Today, Tomorrow, and Forever. Presented at Graduate Student Conference, October 24-26. The University of Michigan, Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

1997 There is no Race!: History of “Race” Concept in Physical Anthropology. Lecture Seminar at the Department of Anthropology, National Science Museum in Tokyo. March 16^th.

1995 Clines and Clusters. Paper presented at the 101^st annual meeting of the Michigan Academy, Big Rapids, MI.

Publications:

2000 Secular change in the Japanese occlusion: the frequency of the overbite and its association with food preparation techniques and eating habits. Ph.D. dissertation. Anthropology, University of Michigan. pp. 338. UMI, Proqest.

2006 “Kagaku-teki Hoshuha Gensetsu wo kiru: Seibutsu-Jinruigaku no shiten kara mita Seisa-Ronso (｢科学的｣保守派言説を斬る！：生物学的人類学の視点から見た性差論争)” in Backlash! : Naze Gender-free ha tatakareta noka?　(バックラッシュ！　なぜジェンダーフリーは叩かれたのか？), pp.310-339. Sofusha, Tokyo Japan.

2006 “The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial forms.”

With C. L. Brace, C. B. Quintyn, S. C. Fox, A. R. Nelson, S. K. Manolis, and P. Qifeng. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol.103, No.1, 242-247.

In press Craniofacial Form and Regional Population Affinities: A Comparative Approach Paleo-Indian Origins. in Environment, origins, and population, Handbook of North American Indians series. (ed.) Douglas Ubelaker, with A. R. Nelson, and C. Loring Brace. Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C.

2006 Do Early South Americans Show Biological Similarity to Australians?: Lagoa Santa in odontometric and craniometric perspective. With Hideyuki Umeda, A.Russell Nelson, and C.Loring Brace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 129 Supplement 42, pp. 162.

2006 Professor C. Loring Brace: Bringing Physical Anthropology (“Kicking and Screaming”) Into the 21^st Century! Dean Falk and Noriko Seguchi, Michigan Discussion in Anthropology, (ed) Derek Brereton, Vol 16. p175-211.

2005 Obituary of Kazuro Hanihara 1927-2004. with C. Loring Brace, in Dental Anthropology 18(2):65-66.

2005 “Race” is not Valid Biological Concept. with C. L. Brace, in Is Race a Universal Idea? : Transcending the Western Paradigm. (ed) Yasuko Takezawa, Jinbun Shoin, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 437-467. (In Japanese)

2005 Early South Americans in Craniofacial metric Perspective: Lagoa Santa. With A. R. Nelson, S. Austin, and C. L. Brace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. Supplement 39, pp. 192.

2001 Old World sources of the first New World human inhabitants: A comparative craniofaical view.

C. Loring Brace, A. Russell Nelson, Noriko Seguchi, Hiroaki Oe, Leslie Sering, Pan Qifeng, Li Yongyi, Dashtseveg Tumen. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol.98, No.17, 10017-10022.