Anthropology, Physical

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A model of temporomandibular joint function in anthropoid primates based on condylar movements during mastication. 
  • A modern human humerus from the early aurignacian of Vogelherdhöhle (Stetten, Germany). 
  • A view on the science: physical anthropology at the millennium. 
  • A wider pelvis does not increase locomotor cost in humans, with implications for the evolution of childbirth. 
  • Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa. 
  • Better together: Thinking anthropologically about genetics. 
  • Body language: The interplay between positional behavior and gestural signaling in the genus Pan and its implications for language evolution. 
  • Body temperature and thermal environment in a generalized arboreal anthropoid, wild mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). 
  • Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism. 
  • Connecting evolution, medicine, and public health. 
  • Daily activity and light exposure levels for five species of lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center. 
  • Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts. 
  • Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators. 
  • Do forelimb shape and peak forces co-vary in strepsirrhines? 
  • Dust in the wind: How climate variables and volcanic dust affect rates of tooth wear in Central American howling monkeys. 
  • Effects of human variation on foot and ankle pain in rural Madagascar. 
  • Energetic and endurance constraints on great ape quadrupedalism and the benefits of hominin bipedalism. 
  • Evaluating morphometric body mass prediction equations with a juvenile human test sample: accuracy and applicability to small-bodied hominins. 
  • Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus. 
  • Fiber type composition of epaxial muscles is geared toward facilitating rapid spinal extension in the leaper Galago senegalensis. 
  • Fossil papio cranium from !Ncumtsa (Koanaka) Hills, western Ngamiland, Botswana. 
  • Functional morphology of the hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability in extinct primates. 
  • Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers. 
  • Gene flow happens. 
  • Great ape walking kinematics: Implications for hominoid evolution. 
  • Hadza sleep biology: Evidence for flexible sleep-wake patterns in hunter-gatherers. 
  • Home-range size in large-bodied carnivores as a model for predicting neandertal territory size. 
  • Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor. 
  • Interbirth intervals in wild baboons: Environmental predictors and hormonal correlates. 
  • Intraspecific variation in semicircular canal morphology-A missing element in adaptive scenarios? 
  • Locomotor mechanics of the slender loris (Loris tardigradus). 
  • Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates. 
  • Lumbar vertebral morphology of flying, gliding, and suspensory mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of the subfossil lemurs Palaeopropithecus and Babakotia. 
  • Makers of the early Aurignacian of Europe. 
  • Maps, Mother Goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India 
  • Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality. 
  • Morphology of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi. 
  • New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae. 
  • Ontogenetic changes in limb postures and their impact on effective limb length in baboons (Papio cynocephalus) 
  • Ontogenetic scaling of fore limb and hind limb joint posture and limb bone cross-sectional geometry in vervets and baboons. 
  • Origins of primate locomotion: gait mechanics of the woolly opossum. 
  • Patterns of quadrupedal locomotion in a vertical clinging and leaping primate (Propithecus coquereli) with implications for understanding the functional demands of primate quadrupedal locomotion. 
  • Potential arms race in the coevolution of primates and angiosperms: brazzein sweet proteins and gorilla taste receptors. 
  • Predicting euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables. 
  • Primate origins, human origins, and the end of higher taxa. 
  • Response to letters to the editor concerning AJPA commentary on "data sharing in biological anthropology: Guiding principles and best practices". 
  • Sexual dimorphism and growth in Alouatta palliata based on 20+ years of field data. 
  • Single-limb force data for two lemur species while vertically clinging. 
  • Skin deep: The decoupling of genetic admixture levels from phenotypes that differed between source populations. 
  • Sleep in a comparative context: Investigating how human sleep differs from sleep in other primates. 
  • Smooth operator: The effects of different 3D mesh retriangulation protocols on the computation of Dirichlet normal energy. 
  • Subsistence activities and the sexual division of labor in the European Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic: evidence from upper limb enthesopathies. 
  • Sustained high levels of physical activity lead to improved performance among "Race Across the USA" athletes. 
  • Technical note: Comparing dental topography software using platyrrhine molars. 
  • The Vindija Neanderthal scapular glenoid fossa: comparative shape analysis suggests evo-devo changes among Neanderthals. 
  • The contributions of Jeanne Altmann. 
  • The cost of deep sleep: Environmental influences on sleep regulation are greater for diurnal lemurs. 
  • The costal skeleton of Shanidar 3 and a reappraisal of Neandertal thoracic morphology. 
  • The crown joules: energetics, ecology, and evolution in humans and other primates. 
  • The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients. 
  • The effect of high wear diets on the relative pulp volume of the lower molars. 
  • The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms. 
  • The gateway to anthropology in St. Louis. 
  • The paleobiology of Amphipithecidae, South Asian late Eocene primates. 
  • The relationships among jaw-muscle fiber architecture, jaw morphology, and feeding behavior in extant apes and modern humans. 
  • The timing and causes of a unique chimpanzee community fission preceding Gombe's "Four-Year War". 
  • The upper dentition and face of Pondaungia cotteri from central Myanmar. 
  • Transparency, usability, and reproducibility: Guiding principles for improving comparative databases using primates as examples. 
  • Understanding the adaptive value of diagonal-sequence gaits in primates: a comment on Shapiro and Raichlen, 2005. 
  • Understanding the evolution of the windlass mechanism of the human foot from comparative anatomy: Insights, obstacles, and future directions. 
  • Wear and its effects on dental topography measures in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Kay, Richard Frederick, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Smith, Lindsey Warwick, Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program
  • Williams, Blythe A., Associate Professor of the Practice Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology