2025 Publications:
Jung H, Baab K, Strait D, Rolian C. Not merely a constraint: How the Constrained Lever Model shapes mandibular evolution via integration. Evolutionary Biology.
Jung H, Rolian C, Strait D, Baab K. 2025. Evaluating the evolvability of Paranthropus cranial morphology in relation to feeding biomechanics. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 188: e70136.
2024 Publications:
2023 Publications:
2022 Publications:
2021 Publications:
Adegboyega, Mayowa T., Peter A. Stamos, Jean-Jacques Hublin, and Timothy D. Weaver. 2021. Virtual reconstruction of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal pelvis. Journal of Human Evolution. 151:102922. January 2021.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248420301834?via%3Dihub
2020 Publications:
Hublin, J.J., Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V., Bailey, S., Bard, E., Delvigne, V., Endarova, E., Fagault, Y., Fewlass, H., Hajdinjak, M., Kromer, B., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Martisius, N.L., Paskulin, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Popov, V., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Skinner, M.M., Smith, G.M., Spasov, R., Talamo, S., Tuna, T., Wacker, L., Welker, F., Wilcke, A., Zahariev, N., McPherron, S.P., and Tsanova, T., 2020. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature. May 2020. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2259-z
Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Wacker, L., Kromer, B., Tuna, T., Fagault, Y., Bard, E., McPherron, S.P., Aldeias, V., Maria, R., Martisius, N.L., Paskulin, L., Rezek, Z., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Sirakova, S., Smith, G.M., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Sirakov, N., Tsanova, T., and Hublin, J.J., 2020. A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature Ecology & Evolution. May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1136-3
Martisius, N.L., Welker, F., Dogandžić, T., Grote, M.N., Rendu, W., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Wilcke, A., McPherron, S.P., Soressi, M., and Steele, T.E. 2020. Non-destructive ZooMS identification reveals strategic bone tool raw material selection by Neandertals. Scientific Reports 10: 7746. May 2020. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64358-w
UC Davis' write-up:
https://egghead.ucdavis.edu/2020/05/08/neandertals-were-choosy-about-making-bone-tools/
First author's blog post at Nature Ecology & Evolution's Behind the Paper:
https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/390953-naomi-l-martisius/posts/if-neandertals-had-a-bone-to-pick-which-would-they-choose
Stamos, Peter A. and Timothy D. Weaver. 2020. Ontogeny of the distal femoral metaphyseal surface and its relationship with locomotor behavior in hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 172:462-474. March 2020.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.24036
2019 Publications:
Buck, L. T., De Groote, I., Hamada, Y., Hassett, B. R., Ito, T., Stock, J. T. 2019. Evidence of different climatic adaptation strategies in humans and non-human primates. Scientific Reports 9:11025. July 2019.
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47202-8
Bosman, A.M., Buck, L. T., Reyes-Centeno, H., Mirazón Lahr, M., Stringer, C., Harvati, K. 2019. The Kabua 1 cranium: virtual anatomical reconstructions. In Sahle, Y, Reyes-Centeno, H. & Bentz, C. (Eds.). Modern Human Origins and Dispersals. Pp 137-170. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. March 2019.
Buck, L. T., Stringer, C. B., MacLarnon, A. M., & Rae, T. C. 2019. Variation in Paranasal Pneumatisation between Mid-Late Pleistocene Hominins. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. March 2019.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Hallett-Desguez, E. 2019. A review of shells as personal ornamentation during the African Middle Stone Age. PaleoAnthropology. Special issue: Personal ornaments in early Prehistory: 24-51. February 2019.
http://www.paleoanthro.org/media/journal/content/PA20190024.pdf
Bosch, D. M., Buck, L. T., Strauss, A. 2019. Location, location, location: investigating perforation locations in Tritia gibbosula shells at Ksâr ‘Akil (Lebanon) using micro-CT data. PaleoAnthropology. Special issue: Personal ornaments in early Prehistory: 52-63. February 2019.
www.paleoanthro.org/media/journal/content/PA20190052.pdf
Georgiou, L., Kivell, T.L., Pahr, D.H., Buck, L.T., Skinner, M.M. 2019. Trabecular architecture of the great ape and human femoral head. Journal of Anatomy: 12957. February 2019.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.12957
2018 Publications:
Martisius, NL, Sidéra, I, Grote, MN, Steele, TE, McPherron, SP, and Schulz-Kornas, E (2018) Time wears on: assessing how bone wears using 3D surface texture analysis. PloS ONE 13(11):eo206078. December 2018.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206078
UC Davis' write-up:
http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2018/11/12/measuring-wear-bone-tools/
Meng Lin, Rebecca L. Siford, Alicia R. Martin, Shigeki Nakagome, Marlo Möller, Eileen G. Hoal, Carlos D. Bustamante, Christopher R. Gignoux, and Brenna M. Henn. 2018. Rapid evolution of a skin-lightening allele in southern African KhoeSan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. December 2018.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/12/05/1801948115
UC Davis' write-up:
http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2018/12/10/rapid-genetic-evolution-linked-lighter-skin-pigmentation-southern-african-population/
Smith, Geoff M., Karen Ruebens, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Teresa E. Steele. 2019. Subsistence strategies throughout the African Middle Pleistocene: Faunal evidence for behavioral change and continuity across the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition. Journal of Human Evolution. 127:1-20. December 2018.
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1YCnoAlZXC6e7
Henn, Brenna M., Teresa E. Steele, and Timothy D. Weaver. 2018. Clarifying distinct models of modern human origins in Africa. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 53:148-156. November 2018.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X1730182X
Goldfield, Anna E., R. Booton, and John M. Marston. 2018. Modeling the role of fire and cooking in the competitive exclusion of Neanderthals. Journal of Human Evolution. 124: 91-104. November 2018.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248417300817?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email
Atkinson, Elizabeth G., Amanda J. Audesse, Julia A. Palacios, Dean M. Bobo, Ashley E. Webb, Sohini Ramachandran, and Brenna M. Henn. 2018. No evidence for recent selection at FOXP2 among diverse human populations. Cell. 174:1-12. August 2018.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30851-1
UC Davis' write-up:
https://ls.ucdavis.edu/news/evolution-genetics-humans-language
Nature Genetics write-up:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-018-0046-6?WT.ec_id=NRG-201810&spMailingID=57381645&spUserID=MTc2NzE1MTI5OAS2&spJobID=1482288828&spReportId=MTQ4MjI4ODgyOAS2
2017 Publications:
Katz, David C., Mark N. Grote, and Timothy D. Weaver. 2017. Changes in human skull morphology across the agricultural transition are consistent with softer diets in pre-industrial farming groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 114:9050-9055. August 2017.
http://www.pnas.org/content/114/34/9050.abstract
Commentary:
http://www.pnas.org/content/114/34/8917.full
UC Davis' write-up:
http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2017/08/24/farming-cheese-chewing-changed-human-skull-shape/
Teresa Steele is part of the international team that just published new human fossils and dates from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, which document the origins of our own, Homo sapiens, evolutionary lineage. June 7, 2017.
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22335.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22336.html
with UC Davis' write-up:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/moroccan-fossils-show-human-ancestors’-diet-game
ls.ucdavis.edu/news-events/dss-news/human-origins.html