Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1970
  • M.A., The University of Chicago 1966
  • B.A., Pomona College 1964
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Research Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2011
  • Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 2004 - 2008
  • Professor with Tenure, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1988 - 2004
  • Professor with Tenure, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1981 - 1988
  • Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1983 - 1988
  • Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1974 - 1983
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1974 - 1981
  • Assistant Professor, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1970 - 1974
  • Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1971 - 1974
  • Associate, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1969 - 1970
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History. American Society for Environmental History. 1995
  • W. W. Howells Book Award. American Anthropological Association. 1993
  • Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1985
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • The Evolution of Diagonal Sequence Gifts in Primates: A New Approach to the Problem awarded by  National Science Foundation 2002 - 2007
  • Historical, Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Animal Consciousness awarded by  National Science Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • Thoracic Shape And Arm Mobility In Primates awarded by  National Science Foundation 1996 - 1997
  • The Phylogeny Of The Cheirogaleidae awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1992
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Cartmill, M., and F. H. Smith. The Human Lineage. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
    • CARTMILL, M., and M. Cartmill. A View to a Death in the Morning hunting and nature through history. Harvard University Press, 2009.
    • Cartmill, M. Hito wa naze korosu ka? Tokyo: Shinyoshya Publishers, 1995.
    • Cartmill, M. Das Bambi-Syndrom Jagdleidenschaft und Misanthropie in der Kulturgeschichte. Hamburg: Rohwohlt, 1995.
    • Cartmill, M. Tod im Morgengrauen das Verhältnis des Menschen zu Natur und Jagd. Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 1993.
    • Cartmill, Matt, William L. Hylander, and James Shafland. Human Structure. Harvard University Press, 1987.

  • Academic Articles

    • Grochowski, Colleen O’Connor, Matt Cartmill, Jerry Reiter, Jean Spaulding, James Haviland, Fidel Valea, Patricia L. Thibodeau, Stacey McCorison, and Edward C. Halperin. “Anxiety in first year medical students taking gross anatomy.” Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.) 27, no. 6 (September 2014): 835–38. https://doi.org/10.1002/ca.22398.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “The end of higher taxa: a reply to Tattersall.” Evolutionary Anthropology 22, no. 4 (July 2013): 172–73. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21346.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “Primate origins, human origins, and the end of higher taxa.” Evolutionary Anthropology 21, no. 6 (November 2012): 208–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21324.
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    • Cartmill, M. “The human (R)evolution(s).” Evolutionary Anthropology 19, no. 3 (May 1, 2010): 89–91. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.20260.
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    • Lemelin, Pierre, and Matt Cartmill. “The effect of substrate size on the locomotion and gait patterns of the kinkajou (Potos flavus).” Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological Genetics and Physiology 313, no. 3 (March 2010): 157–68. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.591.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “Book reviews: Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring LegendBook reviews: Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135, no. 1 (January 2008): 117–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20691.
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    • Cartmill, M., P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt. “Primate gaits and primate origins,” December 1, 2007, 403–35. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33507-0_12.
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    • Cartmill, Matt, Pierre Lemelin, and Daniel Schmitt. “Understanding the adaptive value of diagonal-sequence gaits in primates: a comment on Shapiro and Raichlen, 2005.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133, no. 2 (June 2007): 822–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20589.
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    • Schmitt, Daniel, Matt Cartmill, Timothy M. Griffin, Jandy B. Hanna, and Pierre Lemelin. “Adaptive value of ambling gaits in primates and other mammals.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 209, no. Pt 11 (June 2006): 2042–49. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.02235.
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    • Schmitt, D., M. Cartmill, T. Griffin, J. Hanna, and P. Lemelin. “Ambling: An unusual intermediate speed gait in primates and other mammals.” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology a Molecular & Integrative Physiology 143, no. 4 (April 1, 2006): S90–S90.
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    • Brown, K., and M. Cartmill. “Darwin, Darwinism, and the speciation process.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2006, 69–69.
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    • Cartmill, M., and T. Holliday. “Species taxa, characters, and symplesiomorphies.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2006, 74–74.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “Darwin and design: Does evolution have a purpose?” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128, no. 2 (October 2005): 490–92. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20142.
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    • Brown, K., and M. Cartmill. “75 years of the annual AAPA meetings, 1930-2004.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2005, 79–80.
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    • Cartmill, M., E. A. Cartmill, D. Schmitt, and P. Lemelin. “Walking backwards: testing the association between centers of mass and footfall patterns.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2005, 84–85.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Catastrophes and lesser calamities - The causes of mass extinctions.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 5345 (2005): 26–26.
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    • Cartmill, M., D. Schmitt, and P. Lemelin. “Duty factors and lateral-sequence gaits in primates and chameleons.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2004, 73–73.
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    • Jungers, William L., Amy A. Pokempner, Richard F. Kay, and Matt Cartmill. “Hypoglossal canal size in living hominoids and the evolution of human speech.” Human Biology 75, no. 4 (August 2003): 473–84. https://doi.org/10.1353/hub.2003.0057.
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    • Lemelin, P., D. Schmitt, and M. Cartmill. “Footfall patterns and interlimb co-ordination in opossums (Family Didelphidae): Evidence for the evolution of diagonal-sequence walking gaits in primates.” Journal of Zoology 260, no. 4 (August 1, 2003): 423–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836903003856.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Locomotor modes of primates at moderate speeds. II. Analysis of support patterns.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2003, 75–76.
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    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Surveying the race concept: A reply to Lieberman, Kirk, and Littlefield.” American Anthropologist 105, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 114–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2003.105.1.114.
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    • Kirk, E. C., M. Cartmill, R. F. Kay, and P. Lemelin. “Primate origins and carpolestid relationships: not nailed yet. Comment on Block and Boyer.” Science 300 (2003): 471.
    • Cartmill, M. “Historical Explanation and the Concept of Progress in Primatology.” Evolutionary Anthropology 11, no. SUPPL. 1 (December 1, 2002): 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.10043.
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    • Cartmill, M., P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt. “Support polygons and symmetrical gaits in mammals.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136, no. 3 (November 1, 2002): 401–20. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00038.x.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Paleoanthropology: Science or mythological charter?” Journal of Anthropological Research 58, no. 2 (January 1, 2002): 183–201. https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.58.2.3631035.
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    • Cartmill, M., P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt. “A new theory concerning the adaptive value and evolution of diagonal-sequence gaits in primates and marsupials.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2002, 52–52.
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    • Lemelin, P., D. Schmitt, and M. Cartmill. “The origins of diagonal-sequence walking gaits in primates: an experimental test involving two didelphid marsupials.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2002, 101–101.
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    • Cartmill, M., P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt. “Predicting mammalian walking gaits from optimized support polygons.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2001, 48–48.
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    • Cartmill, Matt, and Irene Lofstrom. “Introduction to the Symposium: Animal Consciousness: Historical, Theoretical, and Empirical Perspectives1.” American Zoologist 40, no. 6 (December 2000): 833–34. https://doi.org/10.1668/0003-1569(2000)040[0833:ittsac]2.0.co;2.
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    • Cartmill, M. “A view on the science: physical anthropology at the millennium.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113, no. 2 (October 2000): 145–49. https://doi.org/10.1002/1096-8644(200010)113:2<145::aid-ajpa1>3.0.co;2-p.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Animal consciousness: Some philosophical, methodological, and evolutionary problems.” American Zoologist 40, no. 6 (January 1, 2000): 835–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/40.6.835.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Symposium introduction. Charles Oxnard: an appreciation.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 2000, 120–21.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Revolution, evolution, and Kuhn: A response to Chamberlain and Hartwig.” Evolutionary Anthropology 8, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 45–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)8:2<45::AID-EVAN3>3.0.CO;2-F.
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    • Cartmill, M., and D. Schmitt. “Axial rotation in the lumbar vertebral column of Australopithecus africanus.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 1999, 102–3.
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    • Lemelin, P., D. Schmitt, and M. Cartmill. “Gait patterns and interlimb coordination in woolly opossums: how did ancestral primates move?” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 1, 1999, 181–82.
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    • Kay, R. F., M. Cartmill, and M. Balow. “The hypoglossal canal and the origin of human vocal behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95, no. 9 (April 1998): 5417–19. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.9.5417.
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    • Cartmill, M. “The status of the race concept in physical anthropology.” American Anthropologist 100, no. 3 (January 1, 1998): 651–60. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1998.100.3.651.
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    • Yoder, A. D., M. Cartmill, M. Ruvolo, K. Smith, and R. Vilgalys. “Ancient single origin for Malagasy primates.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 93, no. 10 (May 1996): 5122–26. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.10.5122.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Hunting and humanity in Western thought.” Social Research 62 (1995): 773–86.
    • Cartmill, Matt. “Aping language.” Nature 373, no. 6511 (January 1995): 206–206. https://doi.org/10.1038/373206a0.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Animal Rights: A Reply to Howard.” Journal of Mammalogy 75, no. 4 (November 18, 1994): 1080–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/1382492.
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    • Cartmill, M. “A critique of homology as a morphological concept.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94, no. 1 (May 1994): 115–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330940109.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Questions of enslavement.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 263, no. 5144 (January 1994): 252–53. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.263.5144.252-a.
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    • Cartmill, M., and A. D. Yoder. “Molecules and morphology in Primate Systematics: An introduction.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94, no. 1 (January 1, 1994): 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330940102.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Reinventing anthropology.” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 37 (1994): 1–9.
    • Cartmill, M. “New views on primate origins.” Evolutionary Anthropology 1 (1992): 105–11.
    • Cartmill, Matt. “Wonderful Life: The burgess shale and the nature of history. By Stephen Jay Gould. New York: W.W. Norton. 1989. 347 pp. $19.95 (cloth).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 84, no. 3 (March 1991): 368–71. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330840314.
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    • Cartmill, M. “The changing image of the hunt in Western thought.” Perspectives in Ethology 9 (1991): 237–60.
    • Cartmill, M. “Human uniqueness and theoretical content in paleoanthropology.” International Journal of Primatology 11, no. 3 (June 1, 1990): 173–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02192868.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Misdeeds in anthropology: bones, bodies, behavior.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 244, no. 4906 (May 1989): 858–59. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.244.4906.858.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “Ecce homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.” Journal of Human Evolution 18, no. 3 (May 1989): 289–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2484(89)90057-2.
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    • MacPhee, R. D. E., M. Cartmill, and K. D. Rose. “Craniodental morphology and relationships of the supposed Eocene dermopteran Plagiomene (Mammalia).” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9 (1989): 329–49.
    • Cartmill, M. “Why I became a scientist.” American Scientist 76 (1988): 452.
    • Cartmill, Matt. “: Size and Scaling in Primate Biology . William L. Jungers.” American Anthropologist 89, no. 1 (March 1987): 220–21. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1987.89.1.02a00850.
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    • CARTMILL, M., D. PILBEAM, and G. ISAAC. “100 YEARS OF PALEOANTHROPOLOGY.” American Scientist 74, no. 4 (July 1, 1986): 410–20.
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    • CARTMILL, M., and J. R. WIBLE. “TARSIER AFFINITIES - THE OTIC EVIDENCE REEXAMINED.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69, no. 2 (February 1, 1986): 186–186.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Reply to E.P. Banks.” American Scientist 74 (1986): 576.
    • Cartmill, S. A., S. A. M, D. Pilbeam, and G Ll Isaac. “One hundred years of paleoanthropology.” American Scientist 74 (1986): 410–20.
    • Cartmill, Matt, and John Langdon Brooks. “Just Before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution.” Man 20, no. 3 (September 1985): 549–549. https://doi.org/10.2307/2802448.
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    • POORMAN, P. A., M. CARTMILL, R. D. E. MACPHEE, and M. J. MOSES. “THE G-BANDED KARYOTYPE OF TARSIUS-BANCANUS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PRIMATE PHYLOGENY.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 66, no. 2 (January 1, 1985): 215–215.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Innate grammars and the evolutionary presumption.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7, no. 2 (January 1, 1984): 191. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00044162.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “BIOLOGY, CULTURE, AND PUNCTUATIONISM.” Evolution 37, no. 5 (September 1983): 1095–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1983.tb05638.x.
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    • MacPhee, R. D., M. Cartmill, and P. D. Gingerich. “New Palaeogene primate basicrania and the definition of the order Primates.” Nature 301, no. 5900 (February 1983): 509–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/301509a0.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “4 LEGS GOOD, 2 LEGS BAD - MANS PLACE (IF ANY) IN NATURE.” Natural History 92, no. 11 (January 1, 1983): 64.
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    • Cartmill, M. “T-lymphocyte immunology and hominoid evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 218, no. 4577 (December 1982): 1145. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6983135.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Assessing tarsier affinities: is anatomical description phylogenetically neutral?” Geobios, Mémoire Special 6 (1982): 279–87.
    • MACPHEE, R. D. E., M. CARTMILL, and P. D. GINGERICH. “ARCHAIC PRIMATE BASICRANIA - NEW FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 57, no. 2 (January 1, 1982): 207–8.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Hypothesis testing and phylogenetic reconstruction.” Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 19, no. 2 (January 1, 1981): 73–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0469.1981.tb00234.x.
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    • Cartmill, M., R. D. E. MacPhee, and E. L. Simons. “Anatomy of the temporal bone in early anthropoids, with remarks on the problem of anthropoid origins.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 56, no. 1 (January 1, 1981): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330560102.
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    • MACPHEE, R. D. E., and M. CARTMILL. “FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR A TARSIER-ANTHROPOID CLADE WITHIN HAPLORHINI.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54, no. 2 (January 1, 1981): 248–248.
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    • WALKER, A., D. PILBEAM, and M. CARTMILL. “CHANGING VIEWS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF PRIMATE EVOLUTION.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54, no. 2 (January 1, 1981): 287–287.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “TARSIER RELATIONSHIPS - IS AN ALGORITHM FOR PHYLOGENY RECONSTRUCTION ATTAINABLE.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 52, no. 2 (January 1, 1980): 212–13.
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    • Cartmill, M. “John Jones's pregnancy: some comments on the statistical-relevance model of scientific explanation.” American Anthropologist 82 (1980): 382–85.
    • Cartmill, M. “The volar skin of primates: its frictional characteristics and their functional significance.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50, no. 4 (May 1979): 497–509. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330500402.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “VOLAR SKIN FRICTION AND PAD PROTUBERANCE IN PRIMATES.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50, no. 3 (January 1, 1979): 426–426.
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    • Cartmill, M., and P. D. Gingerich. “An ethmoid exposure (os planum) in the orbit of Indri indri (Primates, Lemuriformes).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 48, no. 4 (May 1978): 535–38. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330480414.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “ORBITAL MOSAIC IN PROSIMIANS.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 48, no. 3 (January 1, 1978): 385–385.
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    • Cartmill, M. “The orbital mosaic in prosimians and the use of variable traits in systematics.” Folia Primatologica; International Journal of Primatology 30, no. 2 (January 1978): 89–114. https://doi.org/10.1159/000155857.
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    • Cartmill, M., and K. Milton. “The lorisiform wrist joint and the evolution of "brachiating" adaptations in the hominoidea.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47, no. 2 (September 1977): 249–72. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330470206.
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    • Cartmill, Matt. “: Monkeys without Tails: The Story of Man's Evolution . John Napier.” American Anthropologist 79, no. 3 (September 1977): 711–711. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1977.79.3.02a00780.
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    • Kay, R. F., and M. Cartmill. “Cranial morphology and adaptations of Palaechthon nacimienti and other paromomyidae (Plesiadapoidea, ? primates), with a description of a new genus and species.” Journal of Human Evolution 6, no. 1 (January 1, 1977). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0047-2484(77)80040-7.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “WELSH VOWEL MUTATION - SURFACE PHONOLOGY AND UNDERLYING FORMS.” Linguistic Inquiry 7, no. 4 (January 1, 1976): 675–77.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “PRIMATE EVOLUTION - WERE TRAITS SELECTED FOR ARBOREAL LOCOMOTION OR VISUALLY DIRECTED PREDATION.” Science 187, no. 4175 (January 1, 1975): 456–456.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “PRIMATE EVOLUTION - ANALYSIS OF TRENDS - REPLY.” Science 189, no. 4198 (January 1, 1975): 229–30.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “Extinction of Lineages: Irrelevance of Ecological Hypotheses.” American Anthropologist 77, no. 3 (January 1, 1975): 610–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1975.77.3.02a00140.
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    • KAY, R. F., and M. CARTMILL. “SKULL OF PALAECHTHON AND COMMENTS ON ECOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS OF PLESIADAPOIDEA.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 42, no. 2 (January 1, 1975): 311–311.
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    • CARTMILL, M. “RACISM AND TERMINOLOGY.” Current Anthropology 16, no. 4 (1975): 670–670.
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    • Cartmill, M. “On racism and terminology.” Current Anthropology 16 (1975): 670.
    • Kay, R. F., and M. Cartmill. “Skull of Palaechthon nacimienti.” Nature 252, no. 5478 (December 1, 1974): 37–38. https://doi.org/10.1038/252037a0.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Rethinking primate origins.” Science 184 (1974): 436–43.
    • Cartmill, M., and W. L. Hylander. “On the production, marketing and utilization of the Wenner-Gren casts.” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 17 (1974): 219–32.
    • Cartmill, M. “Ethmoid component in the orbit of primates.” Nature 232 (1971): 566–67.
    • Cartmill, M. “The early Pleistocene mammalian microfaunas of sub-Saharan Africa and their ecological significance.” Quaternaria 9 (1967): 169–98.

  • Book Sections

    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Series introduction.” In Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology, and Ecology by Steven E. Churchill, ix–x. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
    • Brown, K., and M. Cartmill. “Foreword.” In Human Population Genetics by J. Relethford, vii–viii. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
    • Cartmill, M. “Primate Classification and Diversity.” In Primate Neuroethology, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326598.003.0002.
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    • Brook, K., and M. Cartmill. “75 years of the annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1930-2004.” In Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century, edited by M. A. Little and K. A. R. Kennedy, 221–32. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.
    • Brown, K., and M. Cartmill. “Series introduction.” In Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology by L. Klepinger, xiii–xiv. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2006.
    • Cartmill, M. “Is there a biological basis for morality?” In The Nature of Difference: Science, Society, and Human Biology, edited by G. T. H. Ellison and A. Goodman, 3–16. London: Taylor & Francis, 2006.
    • Cartmill, M., P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt. “Primate gaits and primate origins.” In Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, 403–36. New York: Springer, 2006.
    • Cartmill, M. “Charles Oxnard: an appreciation.” In Shaping Primate Evolution, edited by F. Anapol, R. German, and N. Jablonski, 1–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
    • Brown, K., and M. Cartmill. “Series introduction.” In The Growth of Humanity by B. Bogin, xiii–xiv. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
    • Cartmill, M. “Taxonomic revolutions and the animal-human boundary.” In Studying Human Origins: Disciplinary History and Epistemology, edited by R. Corbey and W. Roebroeks, 97–106. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2001.
    • Cartmill, M. “The probability of human origins.” In When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It, edited by C. N. Matthews, M. E. Tucker, and P. Hefner, 73–97. Chicago: Open Court, 2001.
    • Cartmill, M. “History of ideas surrounding hunting.” In Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, edited by M. Bekoff and C. Meaney, 197–99. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
    • Cartmill, M. “Hunting hypothesis of human origins.” In History of Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, edited by F. Spencer, 508–12. New York: Garland, 1997.
    • Cartmill, M. “Predation, feeding strategies, and primate origins.” In Biological Anthropology: A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution, edited by N. Boaz and A. J. Almquist, 192–93. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Printice-Hall, 1997.
    • Cartmill, M. “Explaining primate origins.” In Research Frontiers in Anthropology, edited by C. R. Ember and M. Ember, 31–46. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997.
    • Cartmill, M. “Anatomy and pathology.” In USMLE Step 1 Review: The Study Guide, edited by J. S. Goldberg, 1–64. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.
    • Cartmill, M. “Anatomy, antinomies, and the problem of anthropoid origins.” In Anthropoid Origins, edited by J. F. Fleagle and R. F. Kay, 549–66. New York: Plenum, 1994.
    • Cartmill, M. “Non-human primates.” In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, edited by S. Jones, R. D. Martin, D. R. Pilbeam, and S. Burney, 24–32. Cambridge: Cambridge Uniovesity Press, 1992.
    • MacPhee, R. D. E., and M. Cartmill. “Basicranial structures and primate systematics.” In Comparative Primate Biology, 1:219–75. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1986.
    • Cartmill, M. “Climbing.” In Functional Vertebrate Morphology, edited by M. Hildebrand, D. Bramble, K. Liem, and D. Wake, 73–88. Cambridge: harvard University Press, 1985.
    • Cartmill, M. “Basic primatology and prosimian evolution.” In A History of American Physical Anthropology, edited by F. Spencer, 147–86. New York: Academic Press, 1982.
    • Cartmill, M. “Morphology, function and evolution of the anthropoid postorbital septum.” In Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift, edited by A. B. Chiarelli and R. L. Ciochon, 243–74. New York: Plenum, 1980.
    • Cartmill, M., and R. D. E. MacPhee. “Tupaiid affinities: the evidence of the carotid arteries and cranial skeleton.” In Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews, edited by W. P. Luckett, 95–132. New York: Plenum, 1980.
    • Cartmill, M., and R. F. Kay. “Craniodental morphology, tarsier affinities, and primate suborders.” In Recent Advances in Primatology: Evolution, edited by D. J. Chivers and K. A. Joysey, 205–14. London: Academic Press, 1978.
    • Cartmill, M. “Phylogeny of Tarsius: Introduction.” In Recent Advances in Primatology, edited by D. J. Chivers and K. A. Joysey, 193–94. London: Academic Press, 1978.
    • Cartmill, M. “Methods of phylogenetic inference.” In Recent Advances in Primatology, edited by D. J. Chivers and K. A. Joysey, 3:299–305. London: Academic Press, 1978.
    • Cartmill, M. “Strepsirhine basicranial structures and the affinities of the Cheirogaleidae.” In Phylogeny of the Primates, edited by W. P. Luckett and F. S. Szalay, 313–54. New York: Plenum, 1975.
    • Cartmill, M. “Pads and claws in arboreal locomotion.” In Primate Locomotion, 45–83. New York: Academic Press, 1974.
    • Cartmill, M. “Daubentonia, Dactylopsila, woodpeckers, and klinorhynchy.” In Prosimian Biology, edited by R. D. Martin, G. A. Doyle, and A. C. Walker, 655–70. London: Duckworth, 1974.
    • Cartmill, M. “Arboreal adaptations and the origin of the order Primates.” In The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, edited by R. H. Tuttle, 97–122. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972.
    • Brown, K., and M. Cartmill. “Foreword (In preparation).” In The Scientific Bases of Human Anatomy by C.O. Oxnard. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, n.d.
    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Posture, locomotion and bipedality: the case of the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) (In preparation).” In Human Paleontology and Prehistory: Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak, edited by A. Marom and E. Hovers. New York: Springer, n.d.
    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Series Editors' Preface.” In The Primate Roots of Human Nature by C. van Schaik. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, n.d.

  • Other Articles

    • Cartmill, M. “Turtles all the way down: the Atlas of Creation.” Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2011.
    • Kirk, E Christopher, Matt Cartmill, Richard F. Kay, and Pierre Lemelin. “Comment on "Grasping primate origins".” Science (New York, N.Y.), May 2003. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1082060.
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    • Cartmill, M. “Replies to correspondents.” Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 2001.
    • Cartmill, M. “Understanding the evil that men do.” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2000.
    • Cartmill, M. “A view on the science: physical anthropology at the millennium.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 2000.
    • Cartmill, M. “The ascent of words.” Pomona College Magazine, 2000.
    • Cartmill, M., and I. Lofstrom. “Introduction to the symposium "Animal Consciousness: Historical, Theoretical, and Empirical Perspectives".” American Zoologist, 2000.
    • Cartmill, M. “Language and human evolution.” Anthroquest, 1999.
    • Cartmill, M. “Polly want a big hypoglossal nerve? (Reply to R. A. Koster).” Discover, December 1998.
    • Cartmill, M. “The gift of gab.” Discover, November 1998.
    • Cartmill, M. “Oppressed by evolution.” Discover, March 1998.
    • Cartmill, M. “Animal minds, animal dreams.” Natural History. AMER MUSEUM NAT HISTORY, March 1, 1998.
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    • Cartmill, M. “The third man.” Discover, September 1997.
    • Cartmill, M. “Obituary: Weston LaBarre, 1911-1996.” Anthropology Newsletter, 1996.
    • Cartmill, M. “Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep? Consciousness, Evolution, and the Problem of Animal Minds.” New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1996.
    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Report of the Editors.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1995.
    • Cartmill, M., and A. D. Yoder. “Molecules and morphology in primate systematics: an introduction.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1994.
    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Report of the Editors.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1994.
    • Cartmill, M. “Reply to Campbell.” Natural History, September 1993.
    • CARTMILL, M. “THE BAMBI SYNDROME.” Natural History. AMER MUSEUM NAT HISTORY, June 1, 1993.
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    • Cartmill, M., and K. Brown. “Report of the Editors.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1993.
    • Cartmill, M. “Science and liberal education: A reply to Barbara Herrnstein Smith.” Duke Faculty Newsletter, 1993.
    • Cartmill, M. “Report of the Editor.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1992.
    • Cartmill, M. “Obituary: John Buettner-Janusch, 1924-1992.” Anthropology Newsletter, 1992.
    • Cartmill, M. “Report of the Editor.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1991.
    • Cartmill, M. “Science matters in the liberal arts.” Duke Faculty Newsletter, 1991.
    • Cartmill, M. “Report of the Editor.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1990.
    • Cartmill, M. “Four legs good, two legs bad: Man's place (if any) in nature.” Natural History, 1983.
    • Day, M. H., M. Cartmill, N. Staddon, and W. Bosler. “W.C. Osman Hill: selected publications (l926-l974).” International Journal of Primatology. Springer Verlag (Germany), 1982.
    • Doyle, G. A., and M. Cartmill. “Introductory statement.” International Journal of Primatology. Springer Verlag (Germany), 1980.
    • Cartmill, M., K. Brown, R. Eaglen, and D. E. Anderson. “Hand-rearing twin ruffed lemurs (Lemur variegatus) at the Duke University Primate Center.” International Zoo Yearbook, 1979.
    • Cartmill, M. “Primate Origins.” Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1975.

  • Book Reviews

    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution by Travis Rayne Pickering.” Quarterly Review of Biology. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of The Philosophy of Human Evolution by Michael Ruse.” Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2013.
    • Cartmill, M. “So long, science (Review of Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge by Jonathan Marks).” Evolutionary Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 2010.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthopologist Examines America’s Enduring Legend by David J. Daegling and Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 2008.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Darwin and Design by Michael Ruse.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 2005.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Catastrophes and Other Calamities by Tony Hallam.” Tls  the Times Literary Supplement. London, 2005.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Icons of Evolution — Science or Myth? by Jonathan Wells.” Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2005.
    • Cartmill, M. “Men behaving childishly (Review of The Eternal Child by Clive Bromhall).” Tls  the Times Literary Supplement. London, 2003.
    • Cartmill, M. “Mystery of the missing animals (Review of Life on a Young Planet by Andrew H. Knoll).” Tls  the Times Literary Supplement. London, 2003.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? by Michael Ruse.” Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2000.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals edited by Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, and H. Lyn Miles.” International Journal of Primatology. Springer Verlag (Germany), 1999.
    • Cartmill, M. “Alternative divisions ([Review of The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination by Harriet Ritvo).” Natural History. Natural History, 1997.
    • Cartmill, M. “Aping language (Review of Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin).” Nature, 1995.
    • Cartmill, M. “Significant others (Review of Jennie by Douglas Preston and Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin).” Natural History. Natural History, 1995.
    • Cartmill, M. “Questions of enslavement (Review of Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People by Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall).” Science, 1994.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Animal Research and Ethical Conflict by M.T. Phillips and J.A. Sechzer.” International Journal of Primatology. Springer Verlag (Germany), 1993.
    • Cartmill, M. “Dragons in Eden (Review of Scenes from Deep Time by M.J.S. Rudwick and Dinotopia by J. Gurney).” Natural History. Natural History, 1992.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Primate Visions by Donna Haraway.” International Journal of Primatology. Springer Verlag (Germany), 1991.
    • Cartmill, M. “Getting at the heart of the wild things (Review of The Nature Fakers: Wildlife, Science, and Sentiment by R.H. Lutts).” Natural History. Natural History, 1991.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Wonderful Life by S.J. Gould.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1991.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Created From Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism by James Rachels.” American Scientist. American Scientist, 1991.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Ecce Homo by F. Spencer.” Journal of Human Evolution. Elsevier, 1989.
    • Cartmill, M. “Misdeeds in anthropology (Review of Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology edited by G.W. Stocking, Jr.).” Science, 1989.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Size and Scaling in Primate Biology edited by W.L. Jungers.” American Anthropologist. American Anthropological Association, 1987.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of The Taming of Evolution by D.J. Greenwood.” American Scientist. American Scientist, 1986.
    • Cartmill, M. “Animal rights and wrongs (Review of The Case for Animal Experimentation by M.A. Fox).” Natural History. Natural History, 1986.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Just Before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution by J.L. Brooks.” Man, 1985.
    • Cartmill, M. “Biology, culture and punctuationism (Review of The Myths of Human Evolution by N. Eldredge and I. Tattersall).” Evolution. Wiley: 12 months, 1983.
    • Cartmill, M. “An ill-timed modesty (Review of Evolution: Genesis and Revelations by C. Leon Harris).” Natural History. Natural History, 1982.
    • Cartmill, M. “Island primates (Review of The Primates of Madagascar by I. Tattersall).” Science, 1982.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Environment, Behavior, and Morphology: Dynamic Interactions in Primates, edited by M.E. Morbeck, H. Preuschoft, and N. Gomberg.” Human Biology. Wayne State University Press, 1981.
    • Cartmill, M. “Lucy in the sand with footnotes (Review of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by D.C. Johanson and M.A. Edey).” Natural History. Natural History, 1981.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, edited by E. Mayr and W.B. Provine.” The New England Journal of Medicine. Massachusetts Medical Society, 1981.
    • Cartmill, M. “Striger, striger, burning dim (Review of After Man: A Zoology of the Future by D. Dixon).” Natural History. Natural History, 1981.
    • Cartmill, M. “The order Primates (Review of Evolutionary History of the Primates, by F.S. Szalay and E. Delson).” Science, 1980.
    • Cartmill, M. “Recapitulationism: issues evolutionary and philosophical (Review of Ontogeny and Phylogeny, by S.J. Gould).” Science, 1978.
    • Cartmill, M. “Review of Monkeys Without Tails by John Napier.” American Anthropologist. American Anthropological Association, 1977.
    • Cartmill, M. “Mammals in motion (Review of How Mammals Run, by P.P. Gambaryan).” Science, 1975.
    • Cartmill, M. “Anatomy in action (Review of Biomechanics by C. Gans).” Science, 1974.
    • Cartmill, M. “Background for Man.” Edited by P. Dolhinow and V. M. Sarich. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley: 12 months, 1972.

  • Conference Papers

    • Cartmill, Matt, and Kaye Brown. “Vertebral body area profiles in primates and other mammals.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153:91–91. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014.
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    • Cartmill, Matt, and Kaye Brown. “Human fat deposition and upright posture.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 147:113–113. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2012.
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    • Tomcej, Veronica, Matt Cartmill, and Pierre Lemelin. “Bipod lengths during quadrupedal walking in the kinkajou (Potos flavus): another step toward understanding the evolution of diagonal-sequence gaits.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 147:287–287. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2012.
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    • Cartmill, Matt, and Kaye Brown. “Being human means that "being human" means whatever we say it means.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 144:106–106. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2011.
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    • Cartmill, M., D. Schmitt, P. Lemelin, E. A. Cartmill, and C. D. Atkinson. “Gait patterns in primates and marsupials: similarities and differences.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 77–77. WILEY-LISS, 2008.
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