Douglas Martin Boyer | Scholars@Duke

Douglas Martin Boyer
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook 2009
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2018
Recognition
In the News
- OCT 21, 2022 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  How to 3D Print the Fossils of the Great Museums of the World
- AUG 21, 2018
  
  Fossils Rewrite the Story of Lemur Origins
- OCT 31, 2017
  
  Humans Don't Use as Much Brainpower as We Like to Think
- SEP 11, 2017
  
  Why Your Ancestors Would Have Aced the Long Jump
- APR 10, 2017
  
  Building a Virtual Ark for Lemurs
- JUN 8, 2016 WNCN
  
  Duke professor’s website allows unique access to fossils, ancient specimens
- FEB 26, 2016 Aeon
  
  Doug Boyer: Virtual fossils revolutionize the study of human evolution
- FEB 22, 2016 CBS News
  
  Download and 3D-print real fossils for free
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Research
  - Madagascar (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Sustaining MorphoSource 3D data Repository - Supporting a Transformation in Research and Education Practices Relying on Biodiversity and Natural History Collections awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2027
- CC* Data Storage - Flexible Affordable Scalable Technology for Research Storage - FAST-Research Storage awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2024
- CSBR: Rescuing and Sharing a Unique and Irreplaceable Fossil Collection at the Duke Lemur Center awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2024
- Collaborative Research: ABI Development: An Intergrated Platform for Retrieval, Visualization and Analysis of 3D Morphology From Digital Biological Collections awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2023
- CAREER: Evolution of Morphological Diversity in Primates as revealed by 3D Digital Data, Comprehensive Datasets, and Automated Phenotyping awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2023
- Collaborative Research: Measuring Leaping Performance, Evaluating its Anatomical Correlates, and Reconsidering the Importance of Leaping in Primate Origins and Early Evolution awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2022
- Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D awarded by University of Florida 2017 - 2022
- Collborative:Lightning Bug, An Integrated Pipeline to Overcome The Biodiversity Digitization Gap awarded by Yale University 2021 - 2022
- 3D Data Service for Arts and Humanities Research (3DDS) awarded by University of Brighton 2022
- ABI Development: Collaborative Research: The first open access digital archive for hiABI Development: Collaborative Research: The first open access digitalgh fidelity 3D data on morphological phenomes awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2021
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Encephalic Arterial Canals and their Functional Significance awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2020
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Descent Locomotion Behavior in Primates awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2020
- CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Miocene Colombian Vertebrates and Conservation of the Duke Lemur Center Fossil Collections awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Generation and Evaluation of Body Mass Prediction Equations Using Articular Surface Areas of the Primate Tarsus awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2017
- Collaborative Research: Lagerstatten for Eocene Primates in North America awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2017
- Eocene-Oligocene primate evolution and climate change in the Fayum Depression, northern Egypt awarded by State University of New York - Stoney Brook 2015 - 2016
- Primate dental topographic and geometric morphology awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2015
- Biogeography of Paleogene Vertebrates from Indonesia awarded by National Geographic Society 2014 - 2015
- Digital Evolutionary Morphology of the Primate Astragalo-Calcaneal Complex awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2014
- Digital evolutionary morphology of the primate dentition awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation 2013 - 2014
Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Seed Grant: Building a community of practice to increase representation in evolutionary anthropology awarded by Duke Office of Faculty Advancement 2023
External Relationships
- Indiana University
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Fulwood, E. L., S. Shan, J. M. Winchester, T. Gao, H. Kirveslahti, I. Daubechies, and D. M. Boyer. “Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape.” Paleobiology 47, no. 4 (November 27, 2021): 612–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.9.
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  - Rolfe, S., S. Pieper, A. Porto, K. Diamond, J. Winchester, S. Shan, H. Kirveslahti, D. Boyer, A. Summers, and A. M. Maga. “SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12, no. 10 (October 1, 2021): 1816–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13669.
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  - Vitek, N. S., P. E. Morse, D. M. Boyer, S. G. Strait, and J. I. Bloch. “Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.” Paleobiology 47, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 464–86. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.12.
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  - Boyer, D. M., L. M. Schaeffer, and K. C. Beard. “New dentaries of Chiromyoides (Primatomorpha, Plesiadapidae) and a reassessment of the “mammalian woodpecker” ecological niche.” Geobios 66–67 (July 1, 2021): 77–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.03.002.
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  - Frank, Lawrence R., Timothy B. Rowe, Doug M. Boyer, Lawrence M. Witmer, and Vitaly L. Galinsky. “Unveiling the third dimension in morphometry with automated quantitative volumetric computations.” Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (July 2021): 14438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93490-4.
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  - Wang, B., T. Sudijono, H. Kirveslahti, T. Gao, D. M. Boyer, S. Mukherjee, and L. Crawford. “A statistical pipeline for identifying physical features that differentiate classes of 3D shapes.” Annals of Applied Statistics 15, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 638–61. https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AOAS1430.
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  - Fulwood, Ethan L., Shan Shan, Julia M. Winchester, Henry Kirveslahti, Robert Ravier, Shahar Kovalsky, Ingrid Daubechies, and Doug M. Boyer. “Insights from macroevolutionary modelling and ancestral state reconstruction into the radiation and historical dietary ecology of Lemuriformes (Primates, Mammalia).” Bmc Ecology and Evolution 21, no. 1 (April 2021): 60. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01793-x.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Lori M. Jahnke, Connie J. Mulligan, Trudy Turner, and Trudy 2019 Workshop on Data Sharing in Biological Anthropology. “Response to letters to the editor concerning AJPA commentary on "data sharing in biological anthropology: Guiding principles and best practices".” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 172, no. 3 (July 2020): 344–46. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24065.
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  - Marigó, Judit, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Salvador Moyà-Solà, and Doug M. Boyer. “First navicular remains of a European adapiform (Anchomomys frontanyensis) from the Middle Eocene of the Eastern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain): implications for early primate locomotor behavior and navicular evolution.” Journal of Human Evolution 139 (February 2020): 102708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102708.
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  - Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Henry J. Feng, Rachel H. Dunn, Erik R. Seiffert, and Doug M. Boyer. “Vertical support use and primate origins.” Sci Rep 9, no. 1 (August 26, 2019): 12341. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48651-x.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Noah T. Dunham, Allison McNamara, Liza J. Shapiro, Tobin L. Hieronymus, and Jesse W. Young. “My branch is your branch: Talar morphology correlates with relative substrate size in platyrrhines at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador.” J Hum Evol 133 (August 2019): 23–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.012.
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  - Harrington, Arianna R., Christopher W. Kuzawa, and Doug M. Boyer. “Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169, no. 1 (May 2019): 161–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23809.
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  - Shan, S., S. Z. Kovalsky, J. M. Winchester, D. M. Boyer, and I. Daubechies. “ariaDNE: A robustly implemented algorithm for Dirichlet energy of the normal.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10, no. 4 (April 1, 2019): 541–52. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13148.
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  - Morse, Paul E., Stephen G. B. Chester, Doug M. Boyer, Thierry Smith, Richard Smith, Paul Gigase, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America.” Journal of Human Evolution 128 (March 2019): 103–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.08.005.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., and Arianna R. Harrington. “New estimates of blood flow rates in the vertebral artery of euarchontans and their implications for encephalic blood flow scaling: A response to Seymour and Snelling (2018).” Journal of Human Evolution 128 (March 2019): 93–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.10.002.
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  - Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Addison D. Kemp, Darbi M. Griffith, Justin T. Gladman, Erin Ehmke, and Doug M. Boyer. “A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center.” Plos One 14, no. 11 (2019): e0219411. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219411.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Stephanie A. Maiolino, Patricia A. Holroyd, Paul E. Morse, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “Oldest evidence for grooming claws in euprimates.” Journal of Human Evolution 122 (September 2018): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.010.
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  - Gunnell, Gregg F., Doug M. Boyer, Anthony R. Friscia, Steven Heritage, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Ellen R. Miller, Hesham M. Sallam, Nancy B. Simmons, Nancy J. Stevens, and Erik R. Seiffert. “Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye.” Nature Communications 9, no. 1 (August 2018): 3193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05648-w.
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  - Gao, Tingran, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Ingrid Daubechies, Sayan Mukherjee, and Doug M. Boyer. “Development and Assessment of Fully Automated and Globally Transitive Geometric Morphometric Methods, With Application to a Biological Comparative Dataset With High Interspecific Variation.” Anat Rec (Hoboken) 301, no. 4 (April 2018): 636–58. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23700.
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  - Seiffert, E. R., D. M. Boyer, J. G. Fleagle, G. F. Gunnell, C. P. Heesy, J. M. G. Perry, and H. M. Sallam. “New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt.” Historical Biology 30, no. 1–2 (February 17, 2018): 204–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1306522.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., and Arianna R. Harrington. “Scaling of bony canals for encephalic vessels in euarchontans: Implications for the role of the vertebral artery and brain metabolism.” Journal of Human Evolution 114 (January 2018): 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.003.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Séverine Toussaint, and Marc Godinot. “Postcrania of the most primitive euprimate and implications for primate origins.” Journal of Human Evolution 111 (October 2017): 202–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.005.
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  - Vitek, Natasha S., Carly L. Manz, Tingran Gao, Jonathan I. Bloch, Suzanne G. Strait, and Doug M. Boyer. “Semi-supervised determination of pseudocryptic morphotypes using observer-free characterizations of anatomical alignment and shape.” Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 14 (July 2017): 5041–55. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3058.
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  - Wallace, Ian J., Julia M. Winchester, Anne Su, Doug M. Boyer, and Nicolai Konow. “Physical activity alters limb bone structure but not entheseal morphology.” Journal of Human Evolution 107 (June 2017): 14–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.001.
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  - Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Erik R. Seiffert, and Doug M. Boyer. “Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior.” Am J Phys Anthropol 163, no. 2 (June 2017): 367–406. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23213.
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  - Silcox, Mary T., Jonathan I. Bloch, Doug M. Boyer, Stephen G. B. Chester, and Sergi López-Torres. “The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms.” Evolutionary Anthropology 26, no. 2 (April 2017): 74–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21526.
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  - Davies, Thomas G., Imran A. Rahman, Stephan Lautenschlager, John A. Cunningham, Robert J. Asher, Paul M. Barrett, Karl T. Bates, et al. “Open data and digital morphology.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 284, no. 1852 (April 2017): 20170194. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0194.
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  - Pampush, J. D., J. M. Winchester, P. E. Morse, A. Q. Vining, D. M. Boyer, and R. F. Kay. “Introducing molaR: a New R Package for Quantitative Topographic Analysis of Teeth (and Other Topographic Surfaces).” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 23, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 397–412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-016-9326-0.
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  - Pampush, James D., Jackson P. Spradley, Paul E. Morse, Arianna R. Harrington, Kari L. Allen, Doug M. Boyer, and Richard F. Kay. “Wear and its effects on dental topography measures in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161, no. 4 (December 2016): 705–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23077.
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  - Fulwood, Ethan L., Doug M. Boyer, and Richard F. Kay. “Stem members of Platyrrhini are distinct from catarrhines in at least one derived cranial feature.” Journal of Human Evolution 100 (November 2016): 16–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.08.001.
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  - St Clair, Elizabeth M., and Doug M. Boyer. “Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161, no. 2 (October 2016): 237–58. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23021.
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  - Harrington, Arianna R., Mary T. Silcox, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Doug M. Boyer, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates.” J Hum Evol 99 (October 2016): 52–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.005.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., E Christopher Kirk, Mary T. Silcox, Gregg F. Gunnell, Christopher C. Gilbert, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Kari L. Allen, et al. “Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates.” J Hum Evol 97 (August 2016): 123–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.002.
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  - Prufrock, K. A., S. López-Torres, M. T. Silcox, and D. M. Boyer. “Surfaces and spaces: Troubleshooting the study of dietary niche space overlap between North American stem primates and rodents.” Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 4, no. 2 (June 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1088/2051-672X/4/2/024005.
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  - Prufrock, Kristen A., Doug M. Boyer, and Mary T. Silcox. “The first major primate extinction: An evaluation of paleoecological dynamics of North American stem primates using a homology free measure of tooth shape.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, no. 4 (April 2016): 683–97. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22927.
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  - Marigó, Judit, Imma Roig, Erik R. Seiffert, Salvador Moyà-Solà, and Doug M. Boyer. “Astragalar and calcaneal morphology of the middle Eocene primate Anchomomys frontanyensis (Anchomomyini): Implications for early primate evolution.” Journal of Human Evolution 91 (February 2016): 122–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.011.
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  - Copes, Lynn E., Lynn M. Lucas, James O. Thostenson, Hopi E. Hoekstra, and Doug M. Boyer. “A collection of non-human primate computed tomography scans housed in MorphoSource, a repository for 3D data.” Scientific Data 3 (February 2016): 160001. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.1.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Julia M. Winchester, Chris Glynn, and Jesus Puente. “Detailed Anatomical Orientations for Certain Types of Morphometric Measurements Can Be Determined Automatically With Geometric Algorithms.” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 298, no. 11 (November 2015): 1816–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23202.
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  - Patel, Biren A., Ian J. Wallace, Doug M. Boyer, Michael C. Granatosky, Susan G. Larson, and Jack T. Stern. “Distinct functional roles of primate grasping hands and feet during arboreal quadrupedal locomotion.” Journal of Human Evolution 88 (November 2015): 79–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.09.004.
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  - Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Justin T. Gladman, and Doug M. Boyer. “Predicting euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables.” Am J Phys Anthropol 157, no. 3 (July 2015): 472–506. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22735.
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  - Boyer, D. M., J. Winchester, and R. F. Kay. “Erratum: The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2015) 156 (166-178)).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 157, no. 1 (May 1, 2015): 178. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22746.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Jared E. Butler, Rachel H. Dunn, and Erik R. Seiffert. “Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus.” Am J Phys Anthropol 157, no. 1 (May 2015): 134–77. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22702.
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  - Goodenberger, Katherine E., Doug M. Boyer, Caley M. Orr, Rachel L. Jacobs, John C. Femiani, and Biren A. Patel. “Functional morphology of the hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability in extinct primates.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156, no. 3 (March 2015): 327–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22652.
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  - Chester, Stephen G. B., Jonathan I. Bloch, Doug M. Boyer, and William A. Clemens. “Oldest known euarchontan tarsals and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, no. 5 (February 2015): 1487–92. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421707112.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Julia Winchester, and Richard F. Kay. “The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156, no. 1 (January 2015): 166–78. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22619.
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  - Seiffert, Erik R., Loïc Costeur, and Doug M. Boyer. “Primate tarsal bones from Egerkingen, Switzerland, attributable to the middle Eocene adapiform Caenopithecus lemuroides.” Peerj 3 (January 2015): e1036. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1036.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Jesus Puente, Justin T. Gladman, Chris Glynn, Sayan Mukherjee, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, and Ingrid Daubechies. “A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes.” Anat Rec (Hoboken) 298, no. 1 (January 2015): 249–76. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23084.
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  - Turner, K., S. Mukherjee, and D. M. Boyer. “Persistent homology transform for modeling shapes and surfaces.” Information and Inference 3, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 310–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaiai/iau011.
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  - Granatosky, Michael C., Charlotte E. Miller, Doug M. Boyer, and Daniel Schmitt. “Lumbar vertebral morphology of flying, gliding, and suspensory mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of the subfossil lemurs Palaeopropithecus and Babakotia.” Journal of Human Evolution 75 (October 2014): 40–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.011.
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  - Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, S. G. B. Chester, J. I. Bloch, and M. Godinot. “Erratum: Hands of Early Primates (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013) 152(33-78) DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22392).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153, no. 3 (March 1, 2014): 512. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22483.
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  - Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Doug M. Boyer. “Interspecific scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within primates and their closest living relatives.” J Anat 224, no. 2 (February 2014): 150–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.12137.
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  - Fabre, A. C., R. Cornette, A. Perrard, D. M. Boyer, G. V. R. Prasad, J. J. Hooker, and A. Goswami. “A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology of Deccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of India.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 146–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.789437.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Stephen G. B. Chester, Jonathan I. Bloch, and Marc Godinot. “Hands of early primates.” Am J Phys Anthropol 152 Suppl 57 (December 2013): 33–78. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22392.
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  - Baczynski, A. A., F. A. McInerney, S. L. Wing, M. J. Kraus, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, R. Secord, P. E. Morse, and H. C. Fricke. “Chemostratigraphic implications of spatial variation in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon isotope excursion, SE Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14, no. 10 (October 1, 2013): 4133–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20265.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., and Erik R. Seiffert. “Patterns of astragalar fibular facet orientation in extant and fossil primates and their evolutionary implications.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151, no. 3 (July 2013): 420–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22283.
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  - Gladman, Justin T., Doug M. Boyer, Elwyn L. Simons, and Erik R. Seiffert. “A calcaneus attributable to the primitive late Eocene anthropoid Proteopithecus sylviae: phenetic affinities and phylogenetic implications.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151, no. 3 (July 2013): 372–97. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22266.
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  - Ledogar, J. A., J. M. Winchester, E. M. Clair, and D. M. Boyer. “Erratum: Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013) 150 (107-121)).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151, no. 1 (May 1, 2013): 169. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22257.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Erik R. Seiffert, Justin T. Gladman, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “Evolution and allometry of calcaneal elongation in living and extinct primates.” Plos One 8, no. 7 (January 2013): e67792. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067792.
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  - Ledogar, Justin A., Julia M. Winchester, Elizabeth M. St Clair, and Doug M. Boyer. “Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150, no. 1 (January 2013): 107–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22181.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Loïc Costeur, and Yaron Lipman. “Earliest record of Platychoerops (Primates, Plesiadapidae), a new species from Mouras Quarry, Mont de Berru, France.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149, no. 3 (November 2012): 329–46. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22119.
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  - Patel, Biren A., Erik R. Seiffert, Doug M. Boyer, Rachel L. Jacobs, Elizabeth M. St Clair, and Elwyn L. Simons. “New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe.” Journal of Human Evolution 63, no. 1 (July 2012): 99–120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.05.002.
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  - Godfrey, Laurie R., Julia M. Winchester, Stephen J. King, Doug M. Boyer, and Jukka Jernvall. “Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148, no. 2 (June 2012): 215–27. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21615.
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  - King, Stephen J., Doug M. Boyer, Stacey Tecot, Suzanne G. Strait, Sarah Zohdy, Marina B. Blanco, Patricia C. Wright, and Jukka Jernvall. “Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148, no. 2 (June 2012): 228–37. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21589.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Craig S. Scott, and Richard C. Fox. “New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147, no. 4 (April 2012): 511–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22003.
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  - Coleman, Mark N., and Doug M. Boyer. “Inner ear evolution in primates through the Cenozoic: implications for the evolution of hearing.” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 295, no. 4 (April 2012): 615–31. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.22422.
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  - Secord, Ross, Jonathan I. Bloch, Stephen G. B. Chester, Doug M. Boyer, Aaron R. Wood, Scott L. Wing, Mary J. Kraus, Francesca A. McInerney, and John Krigbaum. “Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335, no. 6071 (February 2012): 959–62. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1213859.
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  - Maiolino, Stephanie, Doug M. Boyer, Jonathan I. Bloch, Christopher C. Gilbert, and Joseph Groenke. “Evidence for a grooming claw in a North American adapiform primate: implications for anthropoid origins.” Plos One 7, no. 1 (January 2012): e29135. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029135.
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  - Maiolino, Stephanie, Doug M. Boyer, and Alfred Rosenberger. “Morphological correlates of the grooming claw in distal phalanges of platyrrhines and other primates: a preliminary study.” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 294, no. 12 (December 2011): 1975–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.21498.
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  - Boyer, D., Y. Lipman, E St Clair, J. Puente, T. Funkhouser, B. Patel, J. Jernvall, and I. Daubechies. “Algorithms to automatically quantify the geometric similarity of anatomical surfaces.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 45 (November 2011): 18221–26.
  - Silcox, M. T., C. K. Dalmyn, A. Hrenchuk, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, and P. Houde. “Endocranial morphology of Labidolemur kayi (Apatemyidae, Apatotheria) and its relevance to the study of brain evolution in Euarchontoglires.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31, no. 6 (November 1, 2011): 1314–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2011.609574.
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  - Rose, Kenneth D., Stephen G. B. Chester, Rachel H. Dunn, Doug M. Boyer, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “New fossils of the oldest North American euprimate Teilhardina brandti (Omomyidae) from the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146, no. 2 (October 2011): 281–305. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21579.
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  - Blatch, Stephanie, Doug M. Boyer, Stephen J. King, Jonathan M. Bunn, Jukka Jernvall, and Patricia C. Wright. “Changes in orientation of attritional wear facets with implications for jaw motion in a mixed longitudinal sample of Propithecus edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146, no. 1 (September 2011): 116–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21565.
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  - Goswami, Anjali, Guntupalli V. R. Prasad, Paul Upchurch, Doug M. Boyer, Erik R. Seiffert, Omkar Verma, Emmanuel Gheerbrant, and John J. Flynn. “A radiation of arboreal basal eutherian mammals beginning in the Late Cretaceous of India.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 39 (September 2011): 16333–38. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108723108.
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  - Bunn, Jonathan M., Doug M. Boyer, Yaron Lipman, Elizabeth M. St Clair, Jukka Jernvall, and Ingrid Daubechies. “Comparing Dirichlet normal surface energy of tooth crowns, a new technique of molar shape quantification for dietary inference, with previous methods in isolation and in combination.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145, no. 2 (June 2011): 247–61. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21489.
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  - Coleman, M. N., and D. M. Boyer. “Relationships between the expression of the stapedial artery and the size of the obturator foramen in euarchontans: Functional and phylogenetic implications.” Journal of Human Evolution 60, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 106–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.09.006.
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  - Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, and P. Houde. “Cranial anatomy of paleocene and eocene labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the apatemyidae to other mammals.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 773–825. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00614.x.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Erik R. Seiffert, and Elwyn L. Simons. “Astragalar morphology of Afradapis, a large adapiform primate from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143, no. 3 (November 2010): 383–402. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21328.
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  - Chester, S. G. B., J. I. Bloch, R. Secord, and D. M. Boyer. “A New Small-Bodied Species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 17, no. 4 (July 12, 2010): 227–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-010-9141-y.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Alistair R. Evans, and Jukka Jernvall. “Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, primates).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142, no. 2 (June 2010): 194–210. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21211.
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  - Seiffert, Erik R., Elwyn L. Simons, Doug M. Boyer, Jonathan M. G. Perry, Timothy M. Ryan, and Hesham M. Sallam. “A fossil primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, no. 21 (May 2010): 9712–17. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001393107.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Guntupalli V. R. Prasad, David W. Krause, Marc Godinot, Anjali Goswami, Omkar Verma, and John J. Flynn. “New postcrania of Deccanolestes from the Late Cretaceous of India and their bearing on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of euarchontan mammals.” Die Naturwissenschaften 97, no. 4 (April 2010): 365–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0648-0.
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  - Clair, E. M. S., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, and D. W. Krause. “First records of a triisodontine mammal, goniacodon levisanus, in the late paleocene of the northern great plains, North America.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30, no. 2 (March 1, 2010): 604–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724631003617902.
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  - Kingston, Amanda K., Doug M. Boyer, Biren A. Patel, Susan G. Larson, and Jack T. Stern. “Hallucal grasping in Nycticebus coucang: further implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process.” Journal of Human Evolution 58, no. 1 (January 2010): 33–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.08.002.
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  - Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, M. Godinot, T. M. Ryan, F. Spoor, and A. Walker. “Erratum to "Semicircular canal system in early primates"[J. H. Evol. 56 (2009) 315-327] (DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.10.007).” Journal of Human Evolution 58, no. 3 (January 1, 2010): 279–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.05.001.
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  - Jacobs, Rachel L., Doug M. Boyer, and Biren A. Patel. “Comparative functional morphology of the primate peroneal process.” Journal of Human Evolution 57, no. 6 (December 2009): 721–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.008.
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  - Seiffert, Erik R., Jonathan M. G. Perry, Elwyn L. Simons, and Doug M. Boyer. “Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates.” Nature 461, no. 7267 (October 2009): 1118–21. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08429.
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  - Silcox, Mary T., Jonathan I. Bloch, Doug M. Boyer, Marc Godinot, Timothy M. Ryan, Fred Spoor, and Alan Walker. “Semicircular canal system in early primates.” Journal of Human Evolution 56, no. 3 (March 2009): 315–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.10.007.
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  - Boyer, Doug M. “Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals.” Journal of Human Evolution 55, no. 6 (December 2008): 1118–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.002.
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  - Kirk, E Christopher, Pierre Lemelin, Mark W. Hamrick, Doug M. Boyer, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “Intrinsic hand proportions of euarchontans and other mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of plesiadapiforms.” Journal of Human Evolution 55, no. 2 (August 2008): 278–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.02.008.
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  - Gunnell, G. F., T. M. Bown, J. I. Bloch, and D. M. Boyer. “Proteutheria,” January 1, 2008, 63–81. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541438.006.
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  - Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. “New skeletons of paleocene-eocene plesiadapiformes: A diversity of arboreal positional behaviors in early primates,” December 1, 2007, 535–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33507-0_16.
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  - Boyer, D. M., and J. A. Georgi. “Cranial morphology of a pantolestid eutherian mammal from the eocene bridger formation, Wyoming, USA: Implications for relationships and habitat.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14, no. 4 (September 1, 2007): 239–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-007-9055-5.
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  - Silcox, Mary T., Doug M. Boyer, Jonathan I. Bloch, and Eric J. Sargis. “Revisiting the adaptive origins of primates (again).” Journal of Human Evolution 53, no. 3 (September 2007): 321–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.01.010.
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  - Boyer, Doug M., Biren A. Patel, Susan G. Larson, and Jack T. Stern. “Telemetered electromyography of peroneus longus in Varecia variegata and Eulemur rubriventer: implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process.” Journal of Human Evolution 53, no. 2 (August 2007): 119–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.10.007.
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  - Sargis, Eric J., Doug M. Boyer, Jonathan I. Bloch, and Mary T. Silcox. “Evolution of pedal grasping in Primates.” Journal of Human Evolution 53, no. 1 (July 2007): 103–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.01.008.
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  - Bloch, Jonathan I., Mary T. Silcox, Doug M. Boyer, and Eric J. Sargis. “New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, no. 4 (January 2007): 1159–64. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0610579104.
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  - Wing, Scott L., Guy J. Harrington, Francesca A. Smith, Jonathan I. Bloch, Douglas M. Boyer, and Katherine H. Freeman. “Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, no. 5750 (November 2005): 993–96. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1116913.
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  - Bloch, Jonathan I., and Doug M. Boyer. “Grasping primate origins.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, no. 5598 (November 2002): 1606–10. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1078249.
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  - Bloch, J. I., D. M. Boyer, P. D. Gingerich, and G. F. Gunnell. “New primitive paromomyid from the clarkforkian of wyoming and dental eruption in plesiadapiformes.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22, no. 2 (January 1, 2002): 366–79. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0366:NPPFTC]2.0.CO;2.
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  - Silcox, M. T., E. J. Sargis, J. I. Bloch, and D. M. Boyer. “Primate origins and supraordinal relationships: Morphological evidence.” In Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Second Edition, 1053–81, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39979-4_36.
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  - Boyer, D. M., and J. I. Bloch. “Evaluating the mitten-gliding hypothesis for paromomyidae and micromomyidae (mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) using comparative functional morphology of new paleogene Skeletons.” In Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 233–84, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6997-0_11.
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- Conference Papers
  - Lyu, Ilwoo, Jonathan Perdomo, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Beatriz Paniagua, Doug M. Boyer, and Martin A. Styner. “Group-wise Shape Correspondence of Variable and Complex Objects.” In Proc Spie Int Soc Opt Eng, Vol. 10574, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293273.
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  - Winchester, Julia M., Doug M. Boyer, Elizabeth M. St Clair, Ashley D. Gosselin-Ildari, Siobhán B. Cooke, and Justin A. Ledogar. “Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153:29–44, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22398.
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