selected publications
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abstract
- A method for assigning sex based on the size and shape of the upper and mid-face 2015
- Dental evolution: Patterns of sequence evolution within the primate lineage suggestive of positive selection on genes involved in tooth growth and morphology 2014
- Did Homo and Paranthropus differ in ecology? Evidence from East Turkana, Kenya 2014
- Does hominid dental microstructure carry a phylogenetic signal? 2014
- Evolutionary developmental variation in primate musculature and implications for human medicine 2014
- Learning to live with missing data 2014
- Quantifying the tempo and mode of hominin cranial capacity evolution including taking into account dating and measurement error 2014
- Regional diversity patterns in African bovids, hyaenids, and felids during the past 3 million years: the role of taphonomic bias and implications for the evolution of Paranthropus 2014
- The genetics of hominin cranial base integration and evolution 2014
- Broader evolutionary lessons learned from a comparative and phylogenetic analysis of primate muscles: homoplasy, reversions, evolutionary rates, and the myth of human complexity 2014
- First early hominin from the Western Rift Valley (Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo) 2014
- Homo habilis: fifty years of fossil evidence and analysis 2014
- Stable isotopic and morphological evidence for dietary evolution in the mammalian community of East Turkana, Northern Kenya, between 2 and 1.4 million years ago with particular emphasis on three large-bodied primates 2014
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academic article
- ‘Ecosystem evolution and hominin paleobiology at East Turkana, northern Kenya between 2.0 and 1.4 Ma.’. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2017
- ‘First detailed anatomy study of bonobos reveals higher rates of human evolution and bonobos as best model for our common ancestor.’. Scientific Reports. 2017
- ‘Sagittal crest formation in great apes and gibbons.’. J. Anat.. 2017
- ‘Paranthropus: Where do things stand?’. In: Human Paleontology and Prehistory. Eds. Marom, A. and Hovers, E., Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer. 2017
- ‘The principles and practice of human evolution research: Are we asking questions that can be answered?’. Comptes rendus - Palevol. 2017
- ‘Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution.’. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 114 (3): 468-473.. 2017
- ‘Human evolutionary history’. In: Evolution of Nervous Systems Vol. 4. 2nd Edition. Eds. Kaas, J.H. and Preuss, T. pp. 19-36, Oxford, UK, Elsevier.. 2017
- ‘Hominins: Context, Origins, and Taxic Diversity.’. On Human Nature.. 2016
- ‘L’Evoluzione Umana: Un Cespuglio Sempre Più Intricato.’. Micromega, 6: 16-26.. 2016
- Functional Divergence of NR2C1 (TR2) as a Modulator of Pluripotentiality During Hominid Evolution. Genetics. 2016
- Hominin Taxic Diversity: Fact or Fantasy?. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 2016
- John William Simmons Harris (1926-2013). Journal of Anatomy. 2016
- Testicular receptor 2, Nr2c1, is associated with stem cells in the developing olfactory epithelium and other cranial sensory and skeletal structures. Gene Expression Patterns. 2016
- Zero Tolerance. Period.. Science. 2015
- Humanity's Origins. Ciência Ambiente. 2015
- Apes in the Anthropocene: adaptation survival. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2015
- Modeling the dental development of fossil hominins through the inhibitory cascade. Journal of Anatomy. 2015
- The role of character displacement in the molarization of hominin mandibular premolars. Evolution. 2015
- First Early Hominin from Central Africa (Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo). Public Library of Science One. 2014
- Regional diversity patterns in African bovids, hyaenids, and felids during the past 3 million years: the role of taphonomic bias and implications for the evolution of Paranthropus. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2014
- Unreasonable expectations. Antiquity. 2014
- The broader evolutionary lessons to be learned from a comparative and phylogenetic analysis of primate muscle morphology. Biol. Revs.. 2013
- First comparative study of primate morphological and molecular evolutionary rates including muscle data:implications for the tempo and mode of primate andhuman evolution. J. Anat.. 2013
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article
- Bernard Wood Q&A. Current Biology. 2015
- Welcome to the family. Scientific American. 2014
- Fifty years after Homo habilis. Nature. 2014
- Four-Field Anthropology: A Perfect Union or a Failed State?. Society. 2013
- Gritting their teeth. Nature. 2013
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book
- Wiley-Blackwell Student Dictionary of Human Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. 2015
- Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of chimpanzees - with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, function and synonymy and weight of the muscles. CRC Press - Taylor and Francis. 2013
- Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of orangutans (Pongo) - with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, function and synonymy and weight of the muscles. CRC Press - Taylor and Francis, Oxford, UK. 2013
- Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. 2013
- Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution. CRC Press - Taylor and Francis, Oxford, UK. 2012
- Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of gibbons and siamangs (Hylobates) - with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy and weight of the muscles. CRC Press - Taylor and Francis, Oxford, UK. 2012
- Human Evolution: A Brief Insight. Sterling, New York. 2011
- Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Gorilla. With notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy and weight of the muscles. CRC Press - Taylor and Francis, Oxford, UK.. 2010
- Anthropology. Allyn & Bacon, New York. 2006
- The Human Foot: A companion to clinical studies. Springer-Verlag, London. 2006
- Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, New York. 2005
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group, London.. 2002
- Koobi Fora Research Project. Volume 4: Hominid cranial remains. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1991
- Major topics in primate and human evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1986
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chapter
- Hominin fossils. Discoveries in Modern Science: exploration, invention, technology. 2016
- Origin, development and evolution of primate muscles in the context of anatomical variations and anomalies in modern humans. Evolutionary Developmental Anthropology: A Post-Genomic Approach to Understanding Primate and Human Evolution. 2016
- Defining the genus homo. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Volume 3. Phylogeny of Hominids. 2015
- Hominin Fossils. Discoveries in Modern Science, Vol. 2. 2015
- Human Evolution. Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. 2015
- Humanity's Origins. Darwin in the twenty-first century: nature, humanity, God. 2015
- Macroevolution in and around the hominin clade. Macroevolution: Explanation, Interpretation and Evidence. 2015
- Paranthropus. Companion to Paleoanthropology. 2013
- Evolution of hominin postcanine macromorphology: A comparative meta-analysis. Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology:Genetics, Evolution, Variation. 2013
- Comparative anatomy of the lower limb muscles of hominoids: attachments, relative weights, innervation and functionalmorphology. Primates: Classification, evolution and behavior. 2012
- Evidence for the production of speech in the fossil record. Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution. 2012
- A very particular kind of archaeologist. Casting the Net Wide: Papers in Honor of Glynn Isaac and his approach to Human Origins Research. 2011
- Hominini. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. 2010
- How many landmarks? Assessing the classification accuracy of Pan lower molars using a geometric morphometric analysis of the occlusal basin as seen at the enamel-dentine junction.. Comparative Dental Morphology. 2010
- Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present. Companion to Physical Anthropology. 2010
- Where does the genus Homo begin, and how would we know?. The First Humans: Origins of the Genus Homo. 2009
- Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark. The making of a paleoanthropologist. Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. 2008
- The hunt for our earliest human ancestors.. The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. 2008
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conference paper
- ‘A taxonomic scale-explicit analysis of brain size evolution in the hominin clade.’ 2017
- Hominin behavioral landscapes: merging stable isotopes, zooarchaeology and ecometrics for insights into hominin ecology at East Turkana, northern Kenya 2016
- Hominin Taxic Diversity: Fact or Fantasy? 2016
- Lineage-specific patterns of brain expansion and dental reduction in hominins 2016
- Models for, and predictions about, the head, neck, pectoral and upper limb musculature of the last common ancestor of hominins, and notes on the myth of human morphological complexity 2016
- Tales from the teeth: Investigating the potential of dental microstructure for phylogeny reconstruction 2016
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conference poster
