Recent Faculty Publications

Dr. Kenneth Rose

Rose, K.D., V.B. DeLeon, P. Missiaen, R.S. Rana, A. Sahni, L. Singh, and T. Smith. 2008. Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha. Proc. Royal Soc. London B 275: 1203-1208.

Rose, K.D., and W. von Koenigswald. 2007. The marmot-sized paramyid rodent Notoparamys costilloi from the early Eocene of Wyoming, with comments on dental variation and occlusion in paramyids. Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist. 39:111-125.

Rose, K.D. 2006. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 428 pp. (20% discount from JHU Press)

Dr. Christopher Ruff

Ruff, C.B. (2007) Body size prediction from juvenile skeletal remains. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 133:698-716. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Wiley AJPA page)

Ruff, C.B., Holt, B.M., Sládek, V., Berner, M., Murphy, W.A., Nedden, D. zur, Seidler, H., and Reicheis, W. (2006) Body size, body shape, and long bone strength of the Tyrolean "Iceman". J. Human Evol. 51: 91-101. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Elsevier JHE page)

Ruff, C.B., Holt, B., Trinkaus, E. (2006) Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolff?: "Wolff's Law" and Bone Functional Adaptation. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 129:484-498. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Wiley AJPA page)

Dr. Mark Teaford

Ungar, P.S., Grine, F.E., and Teaford, M.F. (2008) Dental microwear and diet of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei. PLoS One 3(4): e2044. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit PLoS ONE page)

Teaford, M.F. and Ungar, P.S. (2007) Dental adaptations of African apes. In: W. Henke and I. Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Vol. 2. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 1107-1132.

Teaford, M.F. (2007). What do we know and not know about diet and enamel structure? In: P.S. Ungar (ed). Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 56-76.

Dr. David Weishampel

Fastovsky, D.E. and Weishampel, D.B. (eds.) (2005) Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs. 2nd edition. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. 512pp.

Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., Osmólska, H. (eds.) (2004) The Dinosauria. 2nd edition. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. 833 pp.

Weishampel, D. B. & White, N. (eds.) (2003) The Dinosaur Papers: 1676-1906. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C. 524 pp.

Dr. Valerie DeLeon

Aldridge K, Boyahjiev SA, Capone GT, DeLeon VB, Richtsmeier JT. in press. Precision and error of three-dimensional phenotypic measures acquired from 3dMD photogrammetric images. American Journal of Medical Genetics

Richtsmeier JT, DeLeon VB, Lele S. (2002) The promise of geometric morphometrics. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 45:63-91. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Wiley AJPA page)

DeLeon VB, Zumpano MP, Richtsmeier JT. (2001) The effect of neurocranial surgery on basicranial morphology in isolated sagittal craniosynostosis. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 38(2):134-46. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Allen Press CP-CJ page)

Recent Post Doc Publications

Sylvester AD, Merkl BC, Mahfouz MR. (In press). Reconstructing the AL 288-1 femur using three-dimensional computer models. Journal of Human Evolution.

Sylvester AD, Kramer PA. (2008). Stand and Shuffle: When does it make energetic sense. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Sylvester AD. 2006. Locomotor decoupling and the origin of hominin bipedalism. Journal of Theoretical Biology 242(3) 581-590.

Sylvester AD, Christensen AM, Kramer PA. 2006. Factors influencing osteological changes in the hands and fingers of recreational rock climbers. Journal of Anatomy 209(5) 597-610.

Recent Graduate Student Publications (see personal pages for abstract listings)

Habib, M. and C. B. Ruff. 2008. The effects of locomotion on the structural characteristics of avian limb bones. Zoo. J. Linn. Soc. 153: 601-624

Penkrot, T.A., S.P. Zack, K.D. Rose, and J.I. Bloch. 2008. Postcranial morphology of Apheliscus and Haplomylus (Condylarthra, Apheliscidae): Evidence for a Paleocene Holarctic origin of Macroscelidea; pp. 73-106 In: Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay (E. Sargis and M. Dagosto, eds.), Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Auerbach, B.M. and C.B. Ruff. (2006) Limb bone bilateral asymmetry: variability and commonality among modern humans. J. Hum. Evol. 50: 203-218. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Elsevier JHE page)

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