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Benito, J., Kuo, P.C., Widrig, K.E., Jagt, J.W. and Field, D.J., 2022. Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor. Nature612(7938), pp.100-105.

Chiappe, L.M., Navalón, G., Martinelli, A.G., Nava, W. and Field, D.J., 2022. Fossil basicranium clarifies the origin of the avian central nervous system and inner ear. Proceedings of the Royal Society B289(1983), p.20221398.

Demuth, O.E., Benito, J., Tschopp, E., Lautenschlager, S., Mallison, H., Heeb, N. and Field, D.J., 2022. Topology-based three-dimensional reconstruction of delicate skeletal fossil remains and the quantification of their taphonomic deformation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, p.125.

Steell, E.M., Nguyen, J.M., Benson, R.B. and Field, D.J., 2022. Comparative anatomy of the passerine carpometacarpus helps illuminate the early fossil record of crown Passeriformes. Journal of Anatomy.

Arias-Martorell, J., Almécija, S., Urciuoli, A., Nakatsukasa, M., Moyà-Solà, S., & Alba, D. M. (2021). A proximal radius of Barberapithecus huerzeleri from Castell de Barberà: Implications for locomotor diversity among pliopithecoids. Journal of Human Evolution157, 103032.

Arias‐Martorell, J., Zeininger, A., & Kivell, T. L. (2021). Trabecular structure of the elbow reveals divergence in knuckle‐walking biomechanical strategies of African apes. Evolution.

Bird, E. E., Kivell, T. L., & Skinner, M. M. (2021). Cortical and trabecular bone structure of the hominoid capitate. Journal of Anatomy239 (2), 351-373

Bird, E. E., Kivell, T. L., & Skinner, M. M. Patterns of internal bone structure and functional adaptation in the hominoid scaphoid, lunate, and triquetrum. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Bjarnason, A., & Benson, R. B. J. (2021). A 3D geometric morphometric dataset quantifying skeletal variation in birds. MorphoMuseuM7.

Cazenave, M., Oettlé, A., Pickering, T. R., Heaton, J. L., Nakatsukasa, M., Thackeray, J. F., Hoffman, J. & Macchiarelli, R. (2021). Trabecular organization of the proximal femur in Paranthropus robustus: Implications for the assessment of its hip joint loading conditions. Journal of Human Evolution153, 102964.

Cornwall, H. L., Marway, P. S., & Bance, M. (2021). A Micro-Computed Tomography Study of Round Window Anatomy and Implications for Atraumatic Cochlear Implant Insertion. Otology & Neurotology42(2), 327-334.

Deckers, K. A. P. M. (2021). Trabecular Ontogeny of the Gorilla Third Metacarpal (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kent,).

Dittmar, J. M., Mitchell, P. D., Jones, P. M., Mulder, B., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., & Robb, J. E. (2021). Gout and ‘Podagra’in medieval Cambridge, England. International journal of paleopathology33, 170-181.

Fonseka, B. (2021). Investigating Complex Organic Species on Mineral Surfaces (Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge).

Head, J. J. (2021). A South American snake lineage from the Eocene Greenhouse of North America and a reappraisal of the fossil record of “anilioid” snakes. Geobios66, 55-65.

Lewton, K. L., Cardenas, E. E., Cruz, D., Morales, J., & Patel, B. A. (2021) Bone volume in the distal calcaneus correlates with body size but not leap frequency in galagids. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Lowi-Merri, T. M., Benson, R. B., Claramunt, S., & Evans, D. C. (2021). The relationship between sternum variation and mode of locomotion in birds. BMC biology19(1), 1-23.

Marek, R. D., Falkingham, P. L., Benson, R. B., Gardiner, J. D., Maddox, T. W., & Bates, K. T. (2021). Evolutionary versatility of the avian neck. Proceedings of the Royal Society B288(1946), 20203150.

Orkney, A., Bjarnason, A., Tronrud, B. C., & Benson, R. B. (2021). Patterns of skeletal integration in birds reveal that adaptation of element shapes enables coordinated evolution between anatomical modules. Nature Ecology & Evolution5(9), 1250-1258.

Saers, J. P., DeMars, L. J., Stephens, N. B., Jashashvili, T., Carlson, K. J., Gordon, A. D., Ryan, T.M. & Stock, J. T. (2021). Automated resolution independent method for comparing in vivo and dry trabecular bone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology174(4), 822-831.

Sorrentino, R., Stephens, N. B., Marchi, D., DeMars, L. J., Figus, C., Bortolini, E., ... & Benazzi, S. (2021). Unique foot posture in Neanderthals reflects their body mass and high mechanical stress. Journal of human evolution161, 103093.

Thompson, J. E., Power, R. K., Mercieca‐Spiteri, B., Magnussen, J. S., Pardey, M., Buck, L. T., Stock, J. T., McLaughlin, T.R., Stoddart, S. & Malone, C. (2021). Analysis of periosteal lesions from commingled human remains at the Xagħra Circle hypogeum reveals the first case of probable scurvy from Neolithic Malta. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1-20

Ward, D. L., Schroeder, L., Pomeroy, E., Roy, J. E., Buck, L. T., Stock, J. T., Martin-Gronert, M., Ozanne, S.B., Silcox, M.T. & Viola, T. B. (2021). Early life malnutrition and fluctuating asymmetry in the rat bony labyrinth. The Anatomical Record.

Basso, A.P., Sidorkewicj, N.S., Casanave, E.B., Mason, M.J. (2020) The middle ear of the pink fairy armadillo Chlamyphorus truncatus (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Chlamyphoridae): comparison with armadillo relatives using computed tomography. Journal of Anatomy 236: 809-826.

Cox, P. G., Faulkes, C. G., & Bennett, N. C. (2020). Masticatory musculature of the African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). PeerJ8, e8847

Dunmore, C. J., Bardo, A., Skinner, M. M., & Kivell, T. L. (2020). Trabecular variation in the first metacarpal and manipulation in hominids. American journal of physical anthropology171(2), 219-241.

Dunmore, C. J., Skinner, M. M., Bardo, A., Berger, L. R., Hublin, J. J., Pahr, D. H., Rosas, A., Stephens, N.B. & Kivell, T. L. (2020). The position of Australopithecus sediba within fossil hominin hand use diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution4(7), 911-918.

Evers, S. W., Rollot, Y., & Joyce, W. G. (2020). Cranial osteology of the Early Cretaceous turtle Pleurosternon bullockii (Paracryptodira: pleurosternidae). PeerJ8, e9454.

Field, D. J., Benito, J., Chen, A., Jagt, J. W., & Ksepka, D. T. (2020). Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds. Nature579(7799), 397-401.

Grinham, L. (2020). The ecomorphology of facultative bipedality in Lepidosauria: implications for the evolution of reptilian bipedality (Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge).

Grinham, L. R., & Norman, D. B. (2020). The pelvis as an anatomical indicator for facultative bipedality and substrate use in lepidosaurs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society129(2), 398-413.

Grinham, L.R. and Norman, D.B. (2020), The relationship between body shape, body size and locomotor mode in extant lepidosaurs. Journal of Zoology, 311: 183-193.

Head, J. J. (2020). A South American snake lineage from the Eocene Greenhouse of North America and a reappraisal of the fossil record of “anilioid” snakes. Geobios 66-67, 55-65

Johanson, Z., Jeffery, J., Challands, T., E. Pierce, S., & Clack, J. A. (2020). A New Look at Carboniferous Rhizodontid Humeri (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology40(3), e1813150.

Knight, F., Connor, C., Venkataramanan, R., & Asher, R. (2020). Body temperatures, life history, and skeletal morphology in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) 1-37

Macchiarelli, R., Bergeret-Medina, A., Marchi, D., & Wood, B. (2020). Nature and relationships of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Journal of Human Evolution149, 102898.

Malkemper, E. P., Mason, M. J., & Burda, H. (2020). Functional anatomy of the middle and inner ears of the red fox, in comparison to domestic dogs and cats. Journal of anatomy236(6), 980-995.

Marconi, A., Hancock-Ronemus, A., & Gillis, J. A. (2020). Adult chondrogenesis and spontaneous cartilage repair in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Elife9, e53414.

Martín-Serra, A., & Benson, R. B. (2020). Developmental constraints do not influence long-term phenotypic evolution of marsupial forelimbs as revealed by interspecific disparity and integration patterns. The American Naturalist195(3), 547-560.

Mason, M. J., Wenger, L. M., Hammer, Ø., & Blix, A. S. (2020). Structure and function of respiratory turbinates in phocid seals. Polar Biology43(2), 157-173.

Morris, S. C., Smith, R. D., Cuthill, J. F. H., Bonino, E., & Lerosey-Aubril, R. (2020). A possible Cambrian stem-group gnathiferan-chaetognath from the Weeks Formation (Miaolingian) of Utah. Journal of Paleontology94(4), 624-636.

Mulder, B., Stock, J. T., Saers, J. P., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., & Robb, J. E. (2020). Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture. American journal of physical anthropology173(1), 112-129.

Mullins, W., Jarvis, G. E., Oluboyede, D., Skingle, L., Poole, K., Turmezei, T., & Brassett, C. (2020). The Segond fracture occurs at the site of lowest sub‐entheseal trabecular bone volume fraction on the tibial plateau. Journal of anatomy237(6), 1040-1048.

Smithson, T. R., & Clack, J. A. (2020). Systematics and description of the lungfish genus Sagenodus from the Carboniferous of the UK. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth and Environmental Science111(1), 47-74.

Ward, D. L., Pomeroy, E., Schroeder, L., Viola, T. B., Silcox, M. T., & Stock, J. T. (2020). Can bony labyrinth dimensions predict biological sex in archaeological samples?. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports31, 102354.

Willer, D. (2020). Microencapsulated diets to improve the productivity of bivalve shellfish aquaculture for global food security (Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge).

Yazdani, A., Sun, Y. C., Stephens, N. B., Ryan, T., & Monga, V. (2020). Multi-Class Micro-CT Image Segmentation Using Sparse Regularized Deep Networks. In 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (pp. 1553-1557). IEEE.

Asher, R. J., Smith, M. R., Rankin, A., & Emry, R. J. (2019). Congruence, fossils and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs. Royal Society open science6(7), 190387.

Brubaker-Wittman, L., Blackburn, A., DiGiorgio, A., Harwell, F. S., Kane, E. E., & Knott, C. D. (2019). Orangutan Nesting Behavior in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. American journal of physical anthropology168(68).

Clack, J.A., Challands, T.J., Smithson, T.R. and Smithson, K.Z. (2019), Newly recognized Famennian lungfishes from East Greenland reveal tooth plate diversity and blur the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary. Papers in Palaeontology, 5: 261-279

Cuthbert, G. S. (2019). Enriching the Neolithic: The Forgotten People of the Barrows. (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Exeter)

Dunmore, C. J., Kivell, T. L., Bardo, A., & Skinner, M. M. (2019). Metacarpal trabecular bone varies with distinct hand-positions used in hominid locomotion. Journal of anatomy, 235(1), 45–66.

Jones, M. E., Button, D. J., Barrett, P. M., & Porro, L. B. (2019). Digital dissection of the head of the rock dove (Columba livia) using contrast-enhanced computed tomography. Zoological letters5(1), 1-31.

Geiger, M., & Asher, R. J. (2019). Schultz’s rule in domesticated mammals. Mammalian Biology98(1), 36-42.

Georgiou, L., Kivell, T. L., Pahr, D. H., Buck, L. T., & Skinner, M. M. (2019). Trabecular architecture of the great ape and human femoral head. Journal of anatomy234(5), 679-693.

Goutte, S., Mason, M. J., Antoniazzi, M. M., Jared, C., Merle, D., Cazes, L., El-Hafci, H., Pallu, S., Portier, H., Schramm, S. Gueria, P. & Thoury, M. (2019). Intense bone fluorescence reveals hidden patterns in pumpkin toadlets. Scientific reports9(1), 1-8.

Lomax, D. R., Porro, L. B., & Larkin, N. R. (2019). Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) including computed tomography and digital reconstruction of a three-dimensional skull. PeerJ7, e6112.

Mason, M.J., Bennett, N.C. & Pickford, M. (2019) A fossil chrysochlorid skull in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History: Robert Broom's missing specimen unearthed? Palaeontologia Africana 53: 207-218.

Otoo, B. K. A., Clack, J. A., Smithson, T. R., Bennett, C. E., Kearsey, T. J., & Coates, M. I. (2019). A fish and tetrapod fauna from Romer’s gap preserved in Scottish Tournaisian floodplain deposits. Paleeontology 62 (2)

Rawlinson, K. A., Lapraz, F., Ballister, E. R., Terasaki, M., Rodgers, J., McDowell, R. J., Girstmair, J., Criswell, K.E., Boldogkoi, M., Simpson, F., Goulding, D., Cormie, C., Hall, B., Lucas, R.J. & Telford, M. J. (2019). Extraocular, rod-like photoreceptors in a flatworm express xenopsin photopigment. ELife8, e45465.

Saers, J., Ryan, T. & Stock, Jay. (2019). Baby steps towards linking calcaneal trabecular bone ontogeny and the development of bipedal human gait. Journal of Anatomy. 236.

Saers, J. P., Ryan, T. M., & Stock, J. T. (2019). Trabecular bone structure scales allometrically in the foot of four human groups. Journal of human evolution135, 102654.

Saers, J., Ryan, T. M., & Stock, J. T. (2019). Trabecular bone functional adaptation and sexual dimorphism in the human foot. American journal of physical anthropology, 168(1), 154–169. 

Synek, A., Dunmore, C. J., Kivell, T. L., Skinner, M. M., & Pahr, D. H. (2019). Inverse remodelling algorithm identifies habitual manual activities of primates based on metacarpal bone architecture. Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology18(2), 399-410.

Wood, C. S. (2019). Maori community health workers: a mixed reception in New Zealand. In Anthropology and Primary Health Care (pp. 123-136). Routledge.

Yazdani, A., Stephens, N. B., Cherukuri, V., Ryan, T., & Monga, V. (2019, November). Domain-enriched deep network for micro-ct image segmentation. In 2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (pp. 1867-1871). IEEE.

Cameron, M. E., Lapham, H., & Shaw, C. (2018). Examining the influence of hide processing on Native American upper limb morphology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology28(3), 332-342.

Georgiou, L., Kivell, T. L., Pahr, D. H., & Skinner, M. M. (2018). Trabecular bone patterning in the hominoid distal femur. PeerJ6, e5156.

Groucutt, H. S., Grün, R., Zalmout, I. A., Drake, N. A., Armitage, S. J., Candy, I., Clarke-Wilson, R., Luoys, J., Breeze, P.S., Duval, m., Buck, L.T., Kivell, T.L., Pomeroy, E.P., Stephens, N.B., Stock, J.T., Stewart, M., Price, G.J., Kinsley, L., Sung, W.W., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Zahir, M., Memesh, A.M., Abdulshakoor, A.J., Al-Masari, A.M., Bahameem, A.A., Al Murayyi, K.M.S., Zahrani, B., Scerri, E.L.M. & Petraglia, M. D. (2018). Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nature ecology & evolution2(5), 800-809.

Malkemper, E. P., Mason, M. J., Kagerbauer, D., Nimpf, S., & Keays, D. A. (2018). Ectopic otoconial formation in the lagena of the pigeon inner ear. Biology open7(8), bio034462.

Mason, M.J., Bennett, N.C. & Pickford, M. (2018) The middle and inner ears of the Palaeogene golden mole Namachloris: a comparison with extant species. Journal of Morphology 279: 375-395.

Panciroli, E., Benson, R. B., & Butler, R. J. (2018). New partial dentaries of amphitheriid mammal Palaeoxonodon ooliticus from Scotland, and posterior dentary morphology in early cladotherians. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica63(2).

Pickford, M. (2018). Tufamyidae, a new family of hystricognath rodents from the Palaeogene and Neogene of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia19, 71-109.

Ryan, T. M., Carlson, K. J., Gordon, A. D., Jablonski, N., Shaw, C. N., & Stock, J. T. (2018). Human-like hip joint loading in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. Journal of Human Evolution121, 12-24.

Synek, A. (2018). Predicting habitual activities from bone architecture using a biomechanical approach (Doctoral dissertation, Wien).

Thompson, J. E., Martin-Vega, D., Buck, L. T., Power, R. K., Stoddart, S., & Malone, C. (2018). Identification of dermestid beetle modification on Neolithic Maltese human bone: Implications for funerary practices at the Xemxija tombs. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports22, 123-131

Allen, V. R., Kambic, R. E., Gatesy, S. M., & Hutchinson, J. R. (2017). Gearing effects of the patella (knee extensor muscle sesamoid) of the helmeted guineafowl during terrestrial locomotion. Journal of Zoology303(3), 178-187.

Clack, J. A., Porro, L. B., & Bennett, C. E. (2017). A Crassigyrinus-like jaw from the Tournaisian (Early Mississippian) of Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh108(1), 37-46.

Goutte, S., Mason, M.J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Montealegre-Z, F., Chivers, B.D., Sarria-S, F.A., Antoniazzi, M.M., Jared, C., Almeida Sato, L. & Toledo, L.F. (2017) Evidence of auditory insensitivity to vocalization frequencies in two frogs. Scientific Reports 7 (12121): 1-9.

Hoyal Cuthill, J.F., Conway Morris, S. (2017) Nutrient-dependent growth underpinned the Ediacaran transition to large body size. Nature, Ecology and Evolution 1, 1201–1204.

Panciroli, E., Benson, R. B., & Walsh, S. (2017). The dentary of Wareolestes rex (Megazostrodontidae): a new specimen from Scotland and implications for morganucodontan tooth replacement. Papers in Palaeontology3(3), 373-386.

Porro, L. B., Collings, A. J., Eberhard, E. A., Chadwick, K. P., & Richards, C. T. (2017). Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. Journal of Experimental Biology220(10), 1882-1893.

Porro, L. B., & Richards, C. T. (2017). Digital dissection of the model organism Xenopus laevis using contrast‐enhanced computed tomography. Journal of Anatomy231(2), 169-191.

Willer, D., & Aldridge, D. C. (2017). Microencapsulated diets to improve bivalve shellfish aquaculture. Royal Society open science4(11), 171142.

Brocklehurst, R. J., Crumpton, N., Button, E., & Asher, R. J. (2016). Jaw anatomy of Potamogale velox (Tenrecidae, Afrotheria) with a focus on cranial arteries and the coronoid canal in mammals. PeerJ4, e1906.

Lasisi, T., Ito, S., Wakamatsu, K., & Shaw, C. N. (2016). Quantifying variation in human scalp hair fiber shape and pigmentation. American journal of physical anthropology160(2), 341-352.

Mason, M. J. (2016). Structure and function of the mammalian middle ear. I: Large middle ears in small desert mammals. Journal of Anatomy228(2), 284-299.

Mason, M. J., Cornwall, H. L., & Smith, E. S. J. (2016). Ear structures of the naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber, and its relatives (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). PLoS One11(12), e0167079.

Saers, J. P., Cazorla-Bak, Y., Shaw, C. N., Stock, J. T., & Ryan, T. M. (2016). Trabecular bone structural variation throughout the human lower limb. Journal of human evolution97, 97-108.

Spencer, T., Scholar, M., Ryan, T., & Sukdheo, S. (2016). Quantitative Analysis of Cortical and Trabecular Bone in Three Human Populations. The Penn State McNair Journal, 68.

Murphy, E. L. (2015). Quantitative tracking of the cellular and skeletal response of the Caribbean coral Orbicella annularis to gradients in marine sewage pollution (Masters Thesis, University of Illinois)

Porro, L.B., Rayfield, E.J. and Clack, J.A. (2015), Computed tomography, anatomical description and three‐dimensional reconstruction of the lower jaw of Eusthenopteron foordi Whiteaves, 1881 from the Upper Devonian of Canada. Palaeontology 58: 1031-1047.

Porro LB, Rayfield EJ, Clack JA (2015) Descriptive Anatomy and Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Skull of the Early Tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik, 1952. PLOS ONE 10(3): e0118882