under the joint effort of bernard wood, university professor of human origins at the george washington university, adam d. gordon, an anthropologist and assistant professor at the university at albany, state university of new york and malcolm harman, curator of the powell-cotton museum, the “human origin database” project, which is funded by the g. harold & leila y. mathers foundation and aims to provide information about fossil hominin specimens and extant hominoid specimens, has been developed. in addition to the measurements and skeletal element information in professor wood's 1991 book koobi fora research project. volume 4: hominid cranial remains, the complete skeletal element inventory of the chimpanzee and gorilla collections preserved in the powell-cotton museum is also included in this database.