Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Vincent Beyrand, David Lordkipanidze, Paul Tafforeau & Marcia S. Ponce de León (2024)
Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08205-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08205-2
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Andra Meneganzin and Chris Stringer (2024)
Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Speciation Complexity in Palaeoanthropology
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, kzae033
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae033
https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae033/7900502
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Christoph Schmidt, Daniel Veres, George Murătoreanu, Marian Cosac, Loredana Niţă, Ştefan Vasile, Gabriel Sebastian Şerbănescu & Iuliana-Elisabeta Bartok (2024)
Evidence for the oldest Middle Palaeolithic cave occupation in the Romanian Carpathians
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3667
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3667
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Marina Lozano, Joaquim Soler, Diego López-Onaindia, Alba Solés, Ramon Julià, Dolors Ceperuelo, Carlos Lorenzo & Narcís Soler (2024)
Middle Pleistocene teeth from Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, northeastern Iberian Peninsula)
American Journal of Biological Anthropology e25037
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.25037
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25037
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.25037
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Juan Ochando, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco Giles-Guzmán, Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Jose S. Carrión, Fernando Muñiz, Juan Manuel Rubiales, Pedro Cura, João Belo, Stewart Finlayson, Belen Martrat, Barend L. van Drooge, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Antonio García-Alix, Jose Antonio Lozano Rodríguez, Rosa María Albert, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Nanako Ogawa, Hisami Suga, Jon Camuera & Clive Finlayson (2024)
A Neanderthal's specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention
Quaternary Science Reviews 109025
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124005274
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Katharine L. Balolia, Kieran Baughan & Jason S. Massey (2024)
Relative facial width, and its association with canine size and body mass among chimpanzees and bonobos: Implications for understanding facial width-to-height ratio expression among human populations
American Journal of Biological Anthropology e25040
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.25040
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25040
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.25040
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Moritz Dirnberger, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes & Raquel López-Antoñanzas (2024)
Phylogenetic relationships of Neogene hamsters (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetinae) revealed under Bayesian inference and maximum parsimony
PeerJ 12: e18440
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18440
https://peerj.com/articles/18440/
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Jan Wölfer and Lionel Hautier (2024)
Inferring the locomotor ecology of two of the oldest fossil squirrels: influence of operationalization, trait, body size and machine learning method
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2034): 20240743
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0743
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0743
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0743
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Z. Jack Tseng & Larisa R. G. DeSantis (2024)
Relationship between tooth macrowear and jaw morphofunctional traits in representative hypercarnivores.
PeerJ 12: e18435
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18435
https://peerj.com/articles/18435/
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Christine Böhmer & Mara Destina Ocak (2024)
Covariation in the Craniocervical Junction of Carnivora
Journal of Morphology 285(11): e70009
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70009
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70009
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70009
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A. V. Lopatin, M. V. Sotnikova, A. I. Klimovsky, A. V. Lavrov, A. V. Protopopov, D. O. Gimranov & E. V. Parkhomchuk (2024)
Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia
Scientific Reports 14: 28016
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79546-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1
Free pdf:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1.pdf
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Gaoming Liu, Qi Pan, Pingfen Zhu, Xinyu Guo, Zhan Zhang, Zihao Li, Yaolei Zhang, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Jiahao Wang, Weiqiang Liu, Chunyan Hu, Yang Yu, Xiao Wang, Weixiao Chen, Meng Li, Wenhua Yu, Xin Liu, Inge Seim, Guangyi Fan & Xuming Zhou (2024)
Comparative genomics provides insights into adaptive evolution and demographics of bats
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae208
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae208
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msae208/7893330
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Richard C. Hulbert, Jr., Rachel E. Narducci, Robert W. Sinibaldi and Joseph R. Branin (2024)
An Equus-Dominated Middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Vertebrate Fauna from Northcentral Florida, USA
Fossil Studies 2(4): 294-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils2040014
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/4/14
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Magdalena Niedziałkowska, Marcin Górny, Joanna Gornia, Danijela Popović, Mateusz Baca, Urszula Ratajczak-Skrzatek, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Maciej Sykut, Małgorzata Suska-Malawska, Paweł Mackiewicz, Emilia Hofman-Kamińska, Rafał Kowalczyk, Maxim Czarniauski, Kamilla Pawłowska, Daniel Makowiecki, Larisa Tataurova, Alexey Bondarev, Andrey Shpansky, Albert V. Protopopov & Aleksandr Dmitrievich Sorokin (2024)
Impact of global environmental changes on the range contraction of Eurasian moose since the Late Pleistocene
Science of The Total Environment 957: 177235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177235
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724073923
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Free to read:
Richard A. Fariña & Sergio F. Vizcaíno (2024)
Giants beasts updated: A review of new knowledge about the South American megafauna
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3663
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jqs.3663
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William J. Toosey, Thomas E. Williamson, Sarah L. Shelley & Stephen L. Brusatte (2024)
The osteology of Triisodon crassicuspis (Cope, 1882): New insights into the enigmatic “archaic” placental mammal group “Triisodontidae”.
PLoS ONE 19(11): e0311187
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311187
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311187
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Navaornis hestiae gen. et sp. nov.
Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu & Daniel J. Field (2024)
Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain
Nature 635(8038): 376-381
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08114-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08114-4
Free pdf:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08114-4.pdf
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Fatma A. Madkour (2024)
Unique insights into morphological characterization and functional adaptation of the scaly shank skin in aquatic and terrestrial birds
Scientific Reports 14: 28101
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77650-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77650-w
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Julieta Carril, Ricardo S. De Mendoza, Federico J. Degrange, Claudio G. Barbeito & Claudia P. Tambussi (2024)
Evolution of avian foot morphology through anatomical network analysis
Nature Communications 15: 9888
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54297-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54297-9
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Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza (2024)
The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs
Biology Letters 20(11): 2024.0392
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392
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Laia Garcia-Escolà, Josep Fortuny & Jordi Marcé-Nogué (2024)
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.19
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Geneva E. Clark, Alessandro Palci, Rebecca J. Laver, Cristian Hernandez-Morales, Christian A. Perez-Martinez, Patrick J. Lewis, Monte L. Thies, Christopher J. Bell, Christy A. Hipsley, Johannes Müller, Ricardo Montero & Juan D. Daza (2024)
The specialized inner ear labyrinth of worm-lizards (Amphisbaenia: Squamata)
PLoS ONE 19(11): e0312086.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312086
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312086
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Jasper Ponstein, Guilherme Hermanson, Merlin W. Jansen, Johan Renaudie, Jörg Fröbisch & Serjoscha W. Evers (2024)
Functional and Character Disparity Are Decoupled in Turtle Mandibles
Ecology and Evolution 14(11): e70557
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70557
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70557
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.70557
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Guilherme Hermanson & Serjoscha W. Evers (2024)
Shell Constraints on Evolutionary Body Size–Limb Size Allometry Can Explain Morphological Conservatism in the Turtle Body Plan
Ecology and Evolution 14(11): e70504
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70504
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70504
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.70504
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Indosauriscus kuttyi gen. et sp. nov.
Robert R. Reisz, Sankar Chatterjee & Sean P. Modesto (2024)
A new moradisaurine captorhinid reptile (Amniota: Eureptilia) from the upper Permian of India.
PeerJ 12: e18394
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18394
https://peerj.com/articles/18394/
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Chenglong Zhu, Shengyou Li, Daizhen Zhang, Jinjin Zhang, Gang Wang, Botong Zhou, Jiangmin Zheng, Wenjie Xu, Zhengfei Wang, Xueli Gao, Qiuning Liu, Tingfeng Xue, Huabin Zhang, Chunhui Li, Baoming Ge, Yuxuan Liu, Qiang Qiu, Huixian Zhang, Jinghui Huang, Boping Tang & Kun Wang (2024)
Convergent degenerated regulatory elements associated with limb loss in limbless amphibians and reptiles
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae239
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae239
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msae239/7891551
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Markus J. Poschmann, Thomas A. Hegna, Ortwin Emrich, Jan Fischer, René Hoffmann, Thomas Schindler & Sebastian Voigt (2024)
Putative branchiopod and vertebrate eggs from the Remigiusberg Lagerstätte (Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary) of the Saar-Nahe Basin, SW Germany
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2024/1221
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Paul P.A. Mazza, Fabrizio Marra, Giovanni Maria Di Buduo, Luca Bellucci, Mirko Bonechi, Ezra Goemans, Cosimo Bonechi, Luca Costantini, Sebastien Nomade, Danilo M. Palladino, Alison Pereira & Andrea Savorelli (2024)
Geological, paleoenvironmental, and depositional dynamics at the Middle Pleistocene Palaeoloxodon antiquus-bearing site of Campo della Spina, Central Italy
Quaternary International (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.10.014
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618224003689
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Sergei Lazarev, Mehmet Cihat Alçiçek, Lea Rausch, Marius Stoica, Klaudia Kuiper, Thomas A. Neubauer, Hemmo A. Abels, Thomas M. Hoyle, Christiaan G.C. van Baak, Anneleen Foubert, Diksha Bista, Francesca Sangiorgi, Frank P. Wesselingh & Wout Krijgsman (2024)
Early Pleistocene invasion of Pontocaspian Fauna into the Denizli Basin (SW Anatolia): New stratigraphic constraints and implications for Aegean–Pontocaspian hydrological exchange
Quaternary Science Reviews 346: 109050
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109050
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124005523
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Melanie A. D. During, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Jeroen (H) J. L. Van der Lubbe & Per E. Ahlberg (2024)
Calibrations without raw data—A response to “Seasonal calibration of the end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact event”
PeerJ 12: e18519
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18519
https://peerj.com/articles/18519/
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Emily Carlisle, Zongjun Yin, Davide Pisani, and Philip C. J. Donoghue (2024)
Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa
Science Advances 10(46): eadp7161
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp7161
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp7161
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Christopher M. Schiller, Alexander J. Lowe, Thomas A. Dillhoff, Patrick F. Fields, Abigail M. Riley, Ralph E. Taggart, Mark D. Schmitz, Caroline A. E. Strömberg
Mechanisms of rapid plant community change from the Miocene Succor Creek flora, Oregon and Idaho (USA).
PLoS ONE 19(11): e0312104
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312104
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312104
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Johann P. Klages, Henny Gerschel, Ulrich Salzmann, Gernot Nehrke, Juliane Müller, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Steven M. Bohaty & Torsten Bickert (2024)
First discovery of Antarctic amber
Antarctic Science (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102024000208
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Gregory J. Retallack & Ilya N. Bindeman (2024)
Stable isotopic evidence for increased terrestrial productivity through geological time
Scientific Reports 14: 27438
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78838-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78838-w
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Stephan Lautenschlager (2024)
Participatory science and course-based undergraduate research experience to improve research-informed teaching of evolution and palaeontology
Evolution: Education and Outreach 17:20
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-024-00214-z
https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-024-00214-z
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Haohan Wang, Daoming Han and Zhaohui Pan (2024)
A Decade of Vertebrate Palaeontology Research in the UK: Bibliometric and Topic Modelling Analysis
Geosciences 14(11): 314
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14110314
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14/11/314
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