Publications List
2022 Villmoare, B, Grabowski, M. Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 29 July 2022.
2022 Ledogar, J, Senck, A., Villmoare, B. (equal first authors), et al. Mechanical compensation in the evolution of the early hominin feeding apparatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20220711.https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0711
2022 Villmoare, B. Determination of latitude by two fixed-altitude sightings. Journal of Navigation 8 August, 2022.
2022 Scott, J., Rector, A., Villmoare, B. William Howard Kimbel (1954-2022). Evolutionary Anthropology 27 June 2022.
2019 Villmoare, B, Hatala, K, Jungers, B. Sexual dimorphism in Homo erectus inferred from the 1.5 Ma footprints near Ileret, Kenya. Nature Scientific Reports. Accepted for publication.
2018 Villmoare, B. Early Homo and the role of the genus in paleoanthropology. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 165: 72–89.
2018 Powell, V, Esteve-Altaja, B, Molnar, J, Villmoare, B, Pettit, A, Diogo, R. Primate modularity and evolution: first anatomical network analysis of primate head and neck musculoskeletal system. Scientific Reports 8:2341.
2018 Arrowsmith, J R., DiMaggio, E. N., Garello, G. I., Villmoare, B. and Ledi Geraru Research Project (2018): Photogrammetric model of a portion of the Lee Adoyta Basin, Afar, Ethiopia (point cloud [122M points], orthophoto [2 cm/pix], and DEM [25 cm/pix]). Distributed by OpenTopography. Accessed October 23, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5069/G95X271W.
2017 Hatala KG, Roach NT, Ostrofsky KR, Wunderlich RE, Dingwall HL, Villmoare BA, Green DJ, Braun DR, Harris JWK, Behrensmeyer AK, Richmond BG (2017). Hominin track assemblages from Okote Member deposits near Ileret, Kenya and their implications for understanding fossil hominin paleobiology at 1.5 Ma. Journal of Human Evolution 112, 93-104.
2016 Kimbel, W, Villmoare, B. From Australopithecus to Homo : the transition that wasn't. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371(1698): 20150248.
2016 Hatala K, Roach, N, Ostrofsky, K, Wunderlich, R, Dingwall, H, Villmoare, B, Green, D, Braun, D, Richmond, B Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus. Scientific Reports 6:28766.
2016 Roach, N, Hatala, K, Ostrofsky, K, Villmoare, B, Rees, J, Du, A, Braun, D, Harris, W, Behrensmeyer, K, Richmond, B Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups. Scientific Reports 6:26374
2016 Tocheri, M, Dommain, R, McFarlin, S, Brunett, S, Case, T, Orr, C, Roach, N, Villmoare, B, Eriksen, A, Kalthoff, D, Senck, S, Assefa, Z, Groves, C, Jungers, W The Evolutionary Origin and Population History of the Grauer Gorilla. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 159: S4–S18.
2015 Villmoare, B, Kimbel, W, Seyoum, C, Campisano, C, DiMaggio, Rowan, J, Braun, D, Arrowsmith, R, Reed, K, Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science 347: 1352-1355.
2015 Villmoare, B, Kimbel, W, Seyoum, C, Campisano, C, DiMaggio, Rowan, J, Braun, D, Arrowsmith, R, Reed, K. Response to Comment on “Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from LediGeraru,Afar, Ethiopia”. Science 348: 1326.
2015 Esteve-Altava B, Boughner JC, Diogo R, Villmoare BA, Rasskin-Gutman D. Anatomical Network Analysis Shows Decoupling of Modular Lability and Complexity in the Evolution of the Primate Skull. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0127653.doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0127653.
2014 Villmoare, B, Dunmore, C, Kilpatrick, S, Oerteltd, N, and Fish, J. Craniofacial modularity, character analysis, and the evolution of the mid-face in early African hominins. Journal of Human Evolution 77: 143–154.
2013 Villmoare, B, Kuykendall, K., Rae, T., Brimacomb, C. Continuous dental eruption identifies Sts 5 as the developmentally oldest fossil hominin and informs the taxonomy of Australopithecus africanus. Journal of Human Evolution 64(6):473-698.
2013 Villmoare, B. Morphological integration, evolutionary constraints, and extinction: a computer simulation-based study. Evolutionary Biology 40:76–83.
2011 Villmoare, B. and Kimbel, W. CT-based study of internal structure of the anterior pillar in extinct hominins and its implications for the phylogeny of robust Australopithecus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108: 16200-16205.
2011 Villmoare B., Fish J., and Jungers, W. Selection, morphological integration, and strepsirrhine locomotor adaptations. Evolutionary Biology 38: 88-99.
2011 Fish, J., Villmoare, B., Köbernick, K., Compagnucci, C., Tarabykin, V., and Depew, M., Satb2, modularity, and the evolvability of the vertebrate jaw. Evolution and Development 13: 549-564.
2006 Villmoare B. Metric and non-metric randomization methods, geographic variation, and the single-species hypothesis for Asian and African Homo erectus. Journal of Human Evolution. 49: 680-701