Scholars@Duke

• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

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

  • 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

    • 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..” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, June 22, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23877.
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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..” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 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..” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 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..” Journal of Human Evolution 115 (February 2018): 65–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.009.
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    • Yapuncich, G. S. “Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa.” Journal of Human Evolution 115 (February 1, 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..” Journal of Human Evolution 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..” Journal of Human Evolution 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..” Journal of Human Evolution 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..” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 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..” Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) 298, no. 1 (January 2015): 249–76. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23084.
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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..” Journal of Anatomy 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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    • Griffin, Randi H., and Gabriel S. Yapuncich. “The Independent Evolution Method Is Not a Viable Phylogenetic Comparative Method.” Plos One 10, no. 12 (n.d.): e0144147–e0144147. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144147.
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