Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Duke University 2017
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Allometry
  • Evolution
  • Functional Morphology
  • Paleontology
  • Physical anthropology
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • 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
  • 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
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Michael C. Granatosky. “Footloose: Articular surface morphology and joint movement potential in the ankles of lorisids and cheirogaleids.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175, no. 4 (August 2021): 876–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24298.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Aleah Bowie, Raphaël Belais, Steven E. Churchill, and Christopher S. Walker. “Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations.” Am J Primatol 82, no. 2 (February 2020): e23088. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23088.
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    • Walker, Christopher S., Zachary D. Cofran, Mark Grabowski, Damiano Marchi, Rebecca W. Cook, Steven E. Churchill, Kimberleigh A. Tommy, et al. “Morphology of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi.” Am J Phys Anthropol 170, no. 1 (September 2019): 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23877.
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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.” Scientific Reports 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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    • 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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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Steven E. Churchill, Noël Cameron, and Christopher S. Walker. “Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans.” Am J Phys Anthropol 166, no. 1 (May 2018): 179–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23422.
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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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    • Walker, Christopher S., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Shilpa Sridhar, Noël Cameron, and Steven E. Churchill. “Evaluating morphometric body mass prediction equations with a juvenile human test sample: accuracy and applicability to small-bodied hominins.” J Hum Evol 115 (February 2018): 65–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.009.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S. “Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa.” J Hum Evol 115 (February 2018): 140–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.001.
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    • Patel, Biren A., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Cassandra Tran, and Isaiah O. Nengo. “Catarrhine hallucal metatarsals from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya.” J Hum Evol 108 (July 2017): 176–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.013.
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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.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163, no. 2 (June 2017): 367–406. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23213.
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    • Griffin, Randi H., and Gabriel S. Yapuncich. “A critical comment on the ‘multiple variance Brownian motion’ model of Smaers et al. (2016).” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 223–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blw030.
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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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    • 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, 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.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 157, no. 1 (May 2015): 134–77. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22702.
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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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    • Griffin, Randi H., and Gabriel S. Yapuncich. “The Independent Evolution Method Is Not a Viable Phylogenetic Comparative Method.” Plos One 10, no. 12 (January 2015): e0144147. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144147.
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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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    • Boyer, Doug M., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Stephen G. B. Chester, Jonathan I. Bloch, and Marc Godinot. “Hands of early primates.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 152 Suppl 57 (December 2013): 33–78. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22392.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Pampush, James D., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, and Edward J. Fuselier. “Applying BayesModelS to body mass prediction; comparisons with traditional approaches and recommendations for future paleontological reconstructions.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 168:185–185. WILEY, 2019.
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    • Cook, Rebecca W., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Indya J. Thompson, Christopher S. Walker, and Steven E. Churchill. “A comparison of lateral iliac flare measurement methods and their correlation with lesser gluteal moment arms.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165:53–53. WILEY, 2018.
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    • Feng, Henry J., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Rachel H. Dunn, Erik R. Seiffert, and Doug M. Boyer. “Evolutionary and functional implications of the development of the talar posterior trochlear shelf in euprimates.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165:83–83. WILEY, 2018.
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    • Walker, Christopher S., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Aleah Bowie, Raphael Belais, and Steven E. Churchill. “Accuracy of human-based morphometric equations for predicting bonobo body mass.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165:292–292. WILEY, 2018.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Doug M. Boyer. “Scaling relationships of axonic patterning in the hands and feet of primates.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165:307–307. WILEY, 2018.
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    • 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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    • Gladman, Justin T., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, and Siobhan B. Cooke. “Combining 3DGM analyses from multiple anatomical regions improves phylogenetic interpretations of phenetic data in Platyrrhini.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162:195–195. WILEY, 2017.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Blythe A. Williams, and Doug M. Boyer. “Phenetic Affinities of Teilhardina (Primates, Omomyidae) from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming Reveal the First Known Occurrences of Teilhardina brandti Outside the Bighorn Basin.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162:416–416. WILEY, 2017.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Michael C. Granatosky. “Congruence of articular surface curvature and dynamic range of motion in the subtalar joints of lorisids and cheirogaleids.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159:340–41. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016.
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    • Harrington, Arianna R., Mary T. Silcox, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Douglas M. Boyer, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “First virtual endocasts of North American adapiform primates.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156:159–60. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015.
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    • Morse, Paul E., Jonathan I. Bloch, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Doug M. Boyer, and Suzanne G. Strait. “Dental topography and dietary ecology of the first North American euprimates.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156:230–230. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015.
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    • Neu, Ryan, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, and Doug M. Boyer. “Quantification of the position of the flexor fibularis groove of the euarchontan talus.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156:235–235. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Doug M. Boyer. “Allometric shape change in the talar articular surfaces of euarchontans.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156:328–328. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015.
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    • Butler, Jared E., Gabriel S. Yapuncich, and Doug M. Boyer. “Quantification of talar medial tibial facet variation among primates.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153:87–87. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014.
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    • Welch, Emma C., Doug M. Boyer, Gabriel S. Yapuncich, Gregg F. Gunnell, Erik R. Seiffert, and Jonathan I. Bloch. “Re-evaluation of promontorial arterial dominance in fossil adapiforms.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153:270–270. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Doug M. Boyer. “Talar articular surface curvature decreases allometrically among primates.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153:278–79. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., and Doug M. Boyer. “Scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within Euarchonta.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150:297–297. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2013.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel S., Doug M. Boyer, Stephanie Maiorino, and Minjin Bolortsetseg. “NEW DATA FOR EVALUATING FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN PTILODONTIDAE (ALLOTHERIA, MULTITUBERCULATA) USING DIGITAL PREPARATION.” In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32:198–198. TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2012.
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    • Yapuncich, Gabriel, Doug Boyer, Ross Secord, and Jonathan Bloch. “THE FIRST DENTALLY ASSOCIATED SKELETON OF PLAGIOMENIDAE (MAMMALIA, ?DERMOPTERA) FROM THE LATE PALEOCENE OF WYOMING.” In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31:218–218. SOC VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 2011.
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