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3D shape analyses of extant primate and fossil hominin vertebrae support the ancestral shape hypothesis for intervertebral disc herniation

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

A Community Bioarchaeology Project in the Flinders Group, Queensland, Australia

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

A Cross-cultural Perspective on Upper Palaeolithic Hand Images with Missing Phalanges

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

A comment on Steele’s (2010) “radiocarbon dates as data: quantitative strategies for estimating colonization front speeds and event densities”

scientific article published in September 2011

A contextualised review of genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York, Queensland

scientific article published on 11 February 2021

A fossil stapes from Sterkfontein, South Africa, and the hearing capabilities of early hominids

scientific article published in March 2002

A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of blade shape differences among Paleoindian projectile point types from western North America

scientific article published in February 2010

A morphometric assessment of the intended function of cached Clovis points

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

A palaeontological perspective on the proposal to reintroduce Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia to suppress invasive predators

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A reassessment of Bergmann's rule in modern humans

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Acquired Spinal Conditions in Evolutionary Perspective: Updating a Classic Hypothesis

scientific article published in 2022

Adaptive organizational resilience: an evolutionary perspective

An assessment of the impact of hafting on Paleoindian point variability

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Are behavioral differences among wild chimpanzee communities genetic or cultural? An assessment using tool-use data and phylogenetic methods

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Basal metabolic rate and maternal energetic investment durations in mammals

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Bayesian analysis of a morphological supermatrix sheds light on controversial fossil hominin relationships

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Body segment differences in surface area, skin temperature and 3D displacement and the estimation of heat balance during locomotion in hominins

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Breastfeeding Duration and the Social Learning of Infant Feeding Knowledge in Two Maya Communities

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Cladistic analyses of behavioural variation in wild Pan troglodytes: exploring the chimpanzee culture hypothesis

scientific article published on 17 September 2009

Classic Maya bloodletting and the cultural evolution of religious rituals: quantifying patterns of variation in hieroglyphic texts

scientific article

Comment on "The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians"

comments by Mark Collard and Briggs Buchanan

Continent-wide or region-specific? A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of variation in Clovis point shape

scientific article published on 30 November 2013

Corporate kin-groups, social memory, and “history houses”? A quantitative test of recent reconstructions of social organization and building function at Çatalhöyük during the PPNB

Correction: Acquired Spinal Conditions in Evolutionary Perspective: Updating a Classic Hypothesis

scientific article published in 2022

Correlations between genetic and behavioural dissimilarities in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not undermine the case for culture

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Defining the Genus Homo

Do homoiologies impede phylogenetic analyses of the fossil hominids? An assessment based on extant papionin craniodental morphology

scientific article published on 25 August 2005

Does phenotypic plasticity confound attempts to identify hominin fossil species? An assessment using extant Old World monkey craniodental data

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Energy-related influences on variation in breastfeeding duration among indigenous Maya women from Guatemala

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Estimating body mass from postcranial variables: an evaluation of current equations using a large known-mass sample of modern humans

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Estimating body mass from skeletal material: new predictive equations and methodological insights from analyses of a known-mass sample of humans

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Estimating fossil hominin body mass from cranial variables: an assessment using CT data from modern humans of known body mass

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Estimating surface area in early hominins

scientific article (publication date: 13 January 2011)

Evidence that gestation duration and lactation duration are coupled traits in primates

scientific article

FORDISC and the determination of ancestry from cranial measurements

scientific article (publication date: 8 July 2009)

Faunal evidence for a difference in clothing use between Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe

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Food Aversions and Cravings during Pregnancy on Yasawa Island, Fiji

scientific article

From forelimbs to two legs

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Giving it a burl: towards the integration of genetics, isotope chemistry, and osteoarchaeology in Cape York, Tropical North Queensland, Australia

scientific article published on 8 August 2019

Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

Hominin homoiology: an assessment of the impact of phenotypic plasticity on phylogenetic analyses of humans and their fossil relatives

scientific article

How reliable are human phylogenetic hypotheses?

scientific article (publication date: 25 April 2000)

Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25–12 ka Australian archaeological record

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Impact of methodological choices on assessments of the reliability of fossil primate phylogenetic hypotheses

scientific article published in July 2005

Increasing temperature exacerbated Classic Maya conflict over the long term

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Ingroup identification, identity fusion and the formation of Viking war bands

Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes

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Interdisciplinary views on Molecular Anthropology in the Genomic Era

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles

scholarly article by Jamshid J. Tehrani & Mark Collard published December 2002 in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Investigating the peopling of North America through cladistic analyses of Early Paleoindian projectile points

scholarly article by Briggs Buchanan published in September 2007

Isotopic analyses of prehistoric human remains from the Flinders Group, Queensland, Australia, support an association between burial practices and status

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon: an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding

scientific article published in May 2017

Mandibular evidence supports Homo floresiensis as a distinct species

scientific article

On the cutting edge: new methods and theory for analyzing stone tools

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On the reliability of recent tests of the Out of Africa hypothesis for modern human origins

scientific article published in August 2004

On thin ice: problems with Stanford and Bradley's proposed Solutrean colonisation of North America

scholarly article by Michael J. O'Brien published in June 2014

Ontogeny and homoplasy in the papionin monkey face.

scientific article published in September 2001

Pairwise difference analysis in modern human origins research

scientific article

Palaeoanthropology Our newest oldest ancestor?

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Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

scholarly article

Phylogenetic analyses of behavior support existence of culture among wild chimpanzees

scholarly article

Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia

scientific article published in January 2017

Population genomics of the Viking world

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Population size and cultural evolution in nonindustrial food-producing societies

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Potential adaptations for bipedalism in the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae of Homo sapiens: A 3D comparative analysis

scientific article published on 09 November 2019

Radiocarbon dating uncertainty and the reliability of the PEWMA method of time-series analysis for research on long-term human-environment interaction.

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain

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Rainfall, temperature, and Classic Maya conflict: A comparison of hypotheses using Bayesian time-series analysis

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Recent Major Themes and Research Areas in the Study of Human-Environment Interaction in Prehistory

scientific article published on 2 January 2019

Religious belief and cooperation: a view from Viking-Age Scandinavia

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Reply to Anderson et al., Jones, Kennett and West, Culleton, and Kennett et al.: Further evidence against the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis.

scholarly article

Reply to Henrich et al.: The Tasmanian effect and other red herrings

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

Risk of resource failure and toolkit variation in small-scale farmers and herders

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Risk, mobility or population size? Drivers of technological richness among contact-period western North American hunter-gatherers

scientific article (publication date: 19 November 2013)

Sexual dimorphism and facial growth in papionin monkeys

scientific article published in 2002

Spondylolysis and spinal adaptations for bipedalism: The overshoot hypothesis

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Testing for divergent transmission histories among cultural characters: a study using Bayesian phylogenetic methods and Iranian tribal textile data

scientific article

The Acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune?

scientific article

The Nature of Culture: an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2015)

The ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans

scientific article

The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide tsunami

The changing face of genusHomo

The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles

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The empirical case against the 'demographic turn' in Palaeolithic archaeology

scientific article published on July 2016

The evolutionary relationships and age of Homo naledi: An assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods

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The ex-pat effect: presence of recent Western immigrants is associated with changes in age at first birth and birth rate in a Maya population from rural Guatemala

scientific article published on 18 June 2017

The spread of Neolithic plant economies from the Near East to northwest Europe: a phylogenetic analysis

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Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic

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What drives the evolution of hunter-gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest

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