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AMNH-Scientific-Publications-2018 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Fiscal Year 2018 Scientific Publications Division of Anthropology 2 Division of Invertebrate Zoology 7 Division of Paleontology 16 Division of Physical Sciences 21 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Department of Astrophysics Division of Vertebrate Zoology Department of Herpetology 30 Department of Ichthyology 34 Department of Mammalogy 36 Department of Ornithology 39 Center for Biodiversity and Conservation 42 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics 46 1 DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY Alba, D.M., A.S. Hammond, V. Vinuesa, and I. Casanovas-Vilar. 2017. First record of a Miocene pangolin (Pholidota: Manoidea) from the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1424716. Alba D.M., S. Moyà-Solà, D. DeMiguel, I. Casanovas-Vilar, M. Garcés, J.M. Robles, J. Madurell-Malapeira, and S. Almécija. 2018. Ape quest in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (2014–2017): Fieldwork results and prospects for the future. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165 (S66): 7. Boyle, E.K., and S. Almécija. 2018. Iliac flare is related to body mass and gut size in apes, but not in monkeys. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165 (S66): 34–35. DeSalle, R., and I. Tattersall. 2018. What aDNA can (and cannot) tell us about the emergence of language and speech. Journal of Language Evolution 3 (1): 59–66. [DOI: 10.1093/jole/lxz018] DeSalle, R., and I. Tattersall. 2018. Race is not a genomic phenomenon. The Scientist 32 (6): June 2018. DeSalle, R., and I. Tattersall. 2018. Troublesome science: the misuse of genetics and genomics in understanding race. New York: Columbia University Press. Everaert, M.B.H., M.A.C. Huybregts, R.C. Berwick, N. Chomsky, I. Tattersall, A. Moro, and J.J. Bolhuis. 2017. What is language, and how could it have evolved? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 21 (8): 569–571. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.05.007] Fatica, L.M., A.S. Hammond, S.C. McFarlin, and S. Almécija. 2018. Morphological variation in the pelvis of gorilla subspecies may not track ecomorphological predictions. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165 (S66): 82. Hammond, A.S., D.F. Royer, and J.G. Fleagle. 2017. The Omo-Kibish I pelvis. Journal of Human Evolution 108: 199–219. Kelly, R.L., and D.H. Thomas. 2017. Archaeology. 7th edition. New York: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. 402 pp. Kendall. L. 2017. Things fall apart: material religion and the problem of decay. Journal of Asian Studies 76 (4): 861–886. Kendall, L. 2017. Shamans, mountains, and shrines: thinking with electricity in the Republic of Korea. Shaman 25 (1 and 2): 15–21. Kendall, L. 2017. Shamans, bodies, and sex: misreading a Korean ritual. In C.B. Brettell and C.F. Sargent (editors), Gender in cross-cultural perspective. 7th edition 2 (originally published in 4th edition, 2005). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. Kendall, L. 2017. The old shaman. In A. Mátéffy and G. Szabados (editors), Shamanhood and mythology: archaic techniques of ecstasy and current techniques of research, In honor of Mihály Hoppál, celebrating his 75th birthday: 223–230. Budapest: Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religions. Ostrofsky, K.R., N. Thompson, S.C. Mcfarlin, M.M. Robbins, T.S. Stoinski, and S. Almécija. 2018. Capturing 3-D locomotor kinematics in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165 (S66): 195. Peña, A., B.A. Patel, C.M. Orr, and S. Almécija. 2018. Patterns of integration in the hominoid skeleton: a case-study on the wrist. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165 (S66): 203. Průcha, A.D., and S. Almécija. 2018. Sensitivity analysis of semilandmark sliding method and evolutionary model choice in ancestral state reconstructions: The hominoid facial skeleton as a test case. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165 (S66): 214–215. Redmond, E.M., and C.S. Spencer. 2017. El Tzompantlide Loma de La Coyotera, Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. Arqueología Mexicana 24 (148): 70–71. Schwartz, J.H., and I. Tattersall. 2018. Notes on the hominid fossils from Le Lazaret. Appendice XXIV In: M.-A. de Lumley (editor), Les restes humains fossiles de la Grotte du Lazaret, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Des Homo erectus europeens en voie de neandertalisation: 623–625. Paris: CNRS Editions. Springs, L.C., C.S., Larsen, D.H. Thomas, A.M. Semon, and D.A. Bolnick 2017. Investigating the genetic impacts of Spanish Missionization in the Guale of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Poster presented at the Association for Physical Anthropology meetings, New Orleans, March 21, 2017. Tattersall, I. 2017. How we got from there to here, and how we did it so fast. In: C. Lilley and D.J. Pedersen (editors), Human origins and the image of god: essays in honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen: 25–42. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans. Tattersall, I. 2017. Species, genera, and phylogenetic structure in the human fossil record: a modest proposal. Evolutionary Anthropology 26: 116–118. Tattersall, I. 2017. La bipédie: Pourquoi, comment, et quand? In: H. deLumley (editor), Sur le chemin de l’humanité: 31–41. Paris: CNRS Editions/ Pontifical Academy of Sciences. 3 Tattersall, I. 2017. Cognitive complexity and hominid brain size. In: B. Bajd (editor), Paleoanthropology: recent advances and future prospects: 11–125. Ljubljana, Slovenia: University Faculty of Education. Tattersall, I. 2017. Quel pendolo che oscilla tra scienza e fede. MicroMega 8: 69–74. Tattersall, I., and P. Nevraumont. 2018. Hoax: a history of deception. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal. Tattersall, I. 2018. Light at the museum (Review of L. Grande, Curators: behind the scenes at natural history museums what museums are good for in the 21st century, and N. Thomas, The return of curiosity). Times Literary Supplement 5988, January 5, 2018: 10–11. Tattersall, I. 2018. Brain size and the emergence of modern human cognition. In: J.H. Schwartz (editor), Rethinking human evolution: 319–334. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Tattersall, I. 2018. Review of: Peter Bellwood, First Migrants: Ancient migration in global perspective. Journal of Cognitive Historiography 3 (1–2): 245–246. [DOI: 10.1558/jch.33934] Thomas, D.H. 2018. Deep history of the Georgia coast: a view from St. Catherines Island. In: P. Sutter and P.M. Pressly (editors), Coastal nature, coastal culture: 57– 90. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Thomas, D.H. 2018. Franciscan Florida in Pan-Borderlands perspective: adaptation, negotiation, and resistance. In: J.M. Burns and T.J. Johnson (editors), Proceedings of the Second Flagler Franciscan Conference: 1–16. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. Thomas, D.H. 2018. Social agency in the Spanish Mission Borderlands. In: J.M. Burns and T.J. Johnson (editors), Proceedings of the Second Flagler Franciscan Conference: 17–34. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Thomas, D.H. 2017. Tales of a modern mountain man. In T. Taylor, On the trail of the mountain shoshone sheep eaters: a high-altitude archaeological odyssey, by Tory Taylor, 7–8. Dubois, WY: Wind River Publishing. Thomas, D.H. 2017. Materiality matters: colonial transformations spanning the Southwestern and Southeastern Borderlands. In: J.G. Douglass and W.M. Graves (editors), New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest: 379–414. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Press. Thomas, D.H. 2017. Foreword. In: J.G. Douglass and W.M. Graves (editors), New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: the Colonial Period in the American Southwest: xv–xxi. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Press. 4 Thomas, D.H. 2017. Tweaking the conventional wisdom in Southwestern archaeology. In: D.J. Seymour (editor), Fierce and indomitable: the protohistoric non-Pueblo world in the American Southwest: 301–314. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Thompson N.E, K.R. Ostrofsky, S.C. McFarlin, M.M. Robbins, T.S. Stoinski, and S. Almécija. 2018. Unexpected terrestrial hand posture diversity in wild mountain gorillas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166: 84–94. Thompson, N.E., and S. Almécija. 2017. The evolution of vertebral formulae in Hominoidea. Journal of Human Evolution 110: 18–36. Thompson, N.E., K.R. Ostrofsky, S.C. Mcfarlin, M.M. Robbins, D. Rubinstein, and S. Almécija. 2018. Preliminary 3-D kinematic data of wild mountain gorilla terrestrial locomotion: using lab-based methods in ape environments. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165 (S66): 274. Trautmann, T.R., and P.M. Whiteley. 2018. Comment on D. Read, Generative Crow- Omaha terminologies. Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory 12 (6): 1–12. Turchin, P., T.E. Currie, H. Whitehouse, P. Francois, K. Feeney, D. Mullins, D. Hoyer, C. Collins, S. Grohmann, P. Savage, G. Mendel-Gleason, E. Turner, A. Dupeyron, E. Cioni, J. Reddish, J. Levine, G. Jordan, E. Brandl, A. Williams, R. Cesaretti, M. Krueger, A. Cecceralli, J. Figliulo-Rosswurm, P-J. Tuan, P. Peregrine, A. Marciniak, J. Preiser-Kapeller, N. Kradin, A. Korotayev, A Palmisano, D. Baker, J. Bidmead, P. Bol, D. Christian, C. Cook, A. Covey, G. Feinman, A.D. Júlíusson, A. Kristinsson, J. Miksic, R. Mostern, C. Petrie, P. Rudiak-Gould, B. ter Haar, V. Wallace, V. Mair, L. Xie, J. Baines, E. Bridges, J. Manning, B. Lockhart, A. Bogaard, and C.S. Spencer. 2017. Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115 (2): E144–E151. (plus supporting information: 31 pp.) Urciuoli, A, C. Zanolli, J. Fortuny, S. Almécija, B. Schillinger, S. Moyà-Solà, and D.M. Alba. 2018. Neutron-based computed microtomography: Pliobates cataloniae and Barberapithecus huerzeleri as a test-case study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166: 987–993. Villa, A., M. Delfino, À.H. Luján, S. Almécija, and D.M. Alba. 2017. First record of Latonia gigantea (Anura, Alytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Historical Biology. [DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1371712] Wawrzyniak, D.C., and S.
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