Publications by authors named "Marcia S Ponce de León"

40Publications

Variation of bony labyrinthine morphology in Mio-Plio-Pleistocene and modern anthropoids.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Yutaka Kunimatsu Masato Nakatsukasa Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer Hidemi Ishida Tomohiko Sasaki Gen Suwa

Am J Phys Anthropol 2020 10 11;173(2):276-292. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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October 2020

Evidence for independent brain and neurocranial reorganization during hominin evolution.

Authors:
José Luis Alatorre Warren Marcia S Ponce de León William D Hopkins Christoph P E Zollikofer

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019 10 14;116(44):22115-22121. Epub 2019 Oct 14.

Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;

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October 2019

Reconstructing the Neanderthal brain using computational anatomy.

Authors:
Takanori Kochiyama Naomichi Ogihara Hiroki C Tanabe Osamu Kondo Hideki Amano Kunihiro Hasegawa Hiromasa Suzuki Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer Markus Bastir Chris Stringer Norihiro Sadato Takeru Akazawa

Sci Rep 2018 04 26;8(1):6296. Epub 2018 Apr 26.

Research Institute, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, 782-8502, Japan.

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April 2018

Human bony labyrinth is an indicator of population history and dispersal from Africa.

Authors:
Marcia S Ponce de León Toetik Koesbardiati John David Weissmann Marco Milella Carlos S Reyna-Blanco Gen Suwa Osamu Kondo Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas Tim D White Christoph P E Zollikofer

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 04 2;115(16):4128-4133. Epub 2018 Apr 2.

Department of Anthropology and Anthropological Museum, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland;

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April 2018

Phylogenetic and environmental effects on limb bone structure in gorillas.

Authors:
Christopher B Ruff M Loring Burgess Juho-Antti Junno Antoine Mudakikwa Christophe P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León Shannon C McFarlin

Am J Phys Anthropol 2018 06 11;166(2):353-372. Epub 2018 Feb 11.

Department of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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June 2018

Femoral ontogeny in humans and great apes and its implications for their last common ancestor.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Masato Nakatsukasa Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer

Sci Rep 2018 01 31;8(1):1930. Epub 2018 Jan 31.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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January 2018

Development of Pelvic Sexual Dimorphism in Hylobatids: Testing the Obstetric Constraints Hypothesis.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marc Scherrer Marcia S Ponce de León

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2017 05;300(5):859-869

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH-8057, Switzerland.

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May 2017

Skull 5 from Dmanisi: Descriptive anatomy, comparative studies, and evolutionary significance.

Authors:
G Philip Rightmire Marcia S Ponce de León David Lordkipanidze Ann Margvelashvili Christoph P E Zollikofer

J Hum Evol 2017 03 15;104:50-79. Epub 2017 Feb 15.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

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March 2017

Development of Modular Organization in the Chimpanzee Pelvis.

Authors:
Alik Huseynov Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2017 04;300(4):675-686

Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH-8057, Switzerland.

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April 2017

Effects of cranial integration on hominid endocranial shape.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Thibaut Bienvenu Marcia S Ponce de León

J Anat 2017 01 9;230(1):85-105. Epub 2016 Aug 9.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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January 2017

Brain development is similar in Neanderthals and modern humans.

Authors:
Marcia S Ponce de León Thibaut Bienvenu Takeru Akazawa Christoph P E Zollikofer

Curr Biol 2016 07;26(14):R665-6

Anthropologisches Institut und Museum, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address:

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July 2016

Reply to Mitteroecker and Fischer: Developmental solutions to the obstetrical dilemma are not Gouldian spandrels.

Authors:
Marcia S Ponce de León Alik Huseynov Christoph P E Zollikofer

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016 06 21;113(26):E3597-8. Epub 2016 Jun 21.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

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June 2016

Developmental evidence for obstetric adaptation of the human female pelvis.

Authors:
Alik Huseynov Christoph P E Zollikofer Walter Coudyzer Dominic Gascho Christian Kellenberger Ricarda Hinzpeter Marcia S Ponce de León

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016 May 25;113(19):5227-32. Epub 2016 Apr 25.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;

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May 2016

Comparative analysis of dentognathic pathologies in the Dmanisi mandibles.

Authors:
Ann Margvelashvili Christoph P E Zollikofer David Lordkipanidze Paul Tafforeau Marcia S Ponce de León

Am J Phys Anthropol 2016 Jun 26;160(2):229-53. Epub 2016 Feb 26.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, CH-8057, Switzerland.

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June 2016

Virtual reconstruction of the Neanderthal Amud 1 cranium.

Authors:
Hideki Amano Takeo Kikuchi Yusuke Morita Osamu Kondo Hiromasa Suzuki Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer Markus Bastir Chris Stringer Naomichi Ogihara

Am J Phys Anthropol 2015 Oct 7;158(2):185-197. Epub 2015 Aug 7.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan.

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October 2015

POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans.

Authors:
Maanasa Raghavan Matthias Steinrücken Kelley Harris Stephan Schiffels Simon Rasmussen Michael DeGiorgio Anders Albrechtsen Cristina Valdiosera María C Ávila-Arcos Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas Anders Eriksson Ida Moltke Mait Metspalu Julian R Homburger Jeff Wall Omar E Cornejo J Víctor Moreno-Mayar Thorfinn S Korneliussen Tracey Pierre Morten Rasmussen Paula F Campos Peter de Barros Damgaard Morten E Allentoft John Lindo Ene Metspalu Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela Josefina Mansilla Celeste Henrickson Andaine Seguin-Orlando Helena Malmström Thomas Stafford Suyash S Shringarpure Andrés Moreno-Estrada Monika Karmin Kristiina Tambets Anders Bergström Yali Xue Vera Warmuth Andrew D Friend Joy Singarayer Paul Valdes Francois Balloux Ilán Leboreiro Jose Luis Vera Hector Rangel-Villalobos Davide Pettener Donata Luiselli Loren G Davis Evelyne Heyer Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León Colin I Smith Vaughan Grimes Kelly-Anne Pike Michael Deal Benjamin T Fuller Bernardo Arriaza Vivien Standen Maria F Luz Francois Ricaut Niede Guidon Ludmila Osipova Mikhail I Voevoda Olga L Posukh Oleg Balanovsky Maria Lavryashina Yuri Bogunov Elza Khusnutdinova Marina Gubina Elena Balanovska Sardana Fedorova Sergey Litvinov Boris Malyarchuk Miroslava Derenko M J Mosher David Archer Jerome Cybulski Barbara Petzelt Joycelynn Mitchell Rosita Worl Paul J Norman Peter Parham Brian M Kemp Toomas Kivisild Chris Tyler-Smith Manjinder S Sandhu Michael Crawford Richard Villems David Glenn Smith Michael R Waters Ted Goebel John R Johnson Ripan S Malhi Mattias Jakobsson David J Meltzer Andrea Manica Richard Durbin Carlos D Bustamante Yun S Song Rasmus Nielsen Eske Willerslev

Science 2015 Aug 21;349(6250):aab3884. Epub 2015 Jul 21.

Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.

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August 2015

Let bone and muscle talk together: a study of real and virtual dissection and its implications for femoral musculoskeletal structure of chimpanzees.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Gen Suwa Takeshi Nishimura Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer C Owen Lovejoy Masato Nakatsukasa

J Anat 2015 Mar 20;226(3):258-67. Epub 2015 Jan 20.

Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

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March 2015

Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometrics as tools for paleopathology: a new approach to study rare developmental disorders of the skeleton.

Authors:
Marco Milella Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2015 Feb 28;298(2):335-45. Epub 2014 Aug 28.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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February 2015

Phenotypic variation in infants, not adults, reflects genotypic variation among chimpanzees and bonobos.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer

PLoS One 2014 11;9(7):e102074. Epub 2014 Jul 11.

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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March 2015

Response to comment on "A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo".

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León Ann Margvelashvili G Philip Rightmire David Lordkipanidze

Science 2014 Apr;344(6182):360

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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April 2014

A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo.

Authors:
David Lordkipanidze Marcia S Ponce de León Ann Margvelashvili Yoel Rak G Philip Rightmire Abesalom Vekua Christoph P E Zollikofer

Science 2013 Oct;342(6156):326-31

Georgian National Museum, 3 Purtseladze Street, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia.

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October 2013

Tooth wear and dentoalveolar remodeling are key factors of morphological variation in the Dmanisi mandibles.

Authors:
Ann Margvelashvili Christoph P E Zollikofer David Lordkipanidze Timo Peltomäki Marcia S Ponce de León

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 Oct 7;110(43):17278-83. Epub 2013 Oct 7.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

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October 2013

Shared human-chimpanzee pattern of perinatal femoral shaft morphology and its implications for the evolution of hominin locomotor adaptations.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León

PLoS One 2012 25;7(7):e41980. Epub 2012 Jul 25.

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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January 2013

Metopic suture of Taung (Australopithecus africanus) and its implications for hominin brain evolution.

Authors:
Dean Falk Christoph P E Zollikofer Naoki Morimoto Marcia S Ponce de León

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 May 7;109(22):8467-70. Epub 2012 May 7.

School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA.

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May 2012

Femoral morphology and femoropelvic musculoskeletal anatomy of humans and great apes: a comparative virtopsy study.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Marcia S Ponce de León Takeshi Nishimura Christoph P E Zollikofer

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2011 Sep 1;294(9):1433-45. Epub 2011 Aug 1.

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, Switzerland.

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September 2011

Exploring femoral diaphyseal shape variation in wild and captive chimpanzees by means of morphometric mapping: a test of Wolff's law.

Authors:
Naoki Morimoto Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2011 Apr 15;294(4):589-609. Epub 2011 Feb 15.

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, Switzerland.

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April 2011

First evidence of a bipartite medial cuneiform in the hominin fossil record: a case report from the Early Pleistocene site of Dmanisi.

Authors:
Tea Jashashvili Marcia S Ponce de León David Lordkipanidze Christoph P E Zollikofer

J Anat 2010 Jun;216(6):705-16

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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June 2010

Three-dimensional geometric morphometrics for studying floral shape variation.

Authors:
Timotheüs van der Niet Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León Steven D Johnson H Peter Linder

Trends Plant Sci 2010 Aug 10;15(8):423-6. Epub 2010 Jun 10.

School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, P.Bag X01, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa.

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August 2010

Locomotor anatomy and biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins.

Authors:
Herman Pontzer Campbell Rolian G Philip Rightmire Tea Jashashvili Marcia S Ponce de León David Lordkipanidze Christoph P E Zollikofer

J Hum Evol 2010 Jun 6;58(6):492-504. Epub 2010 May 6.

Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA.

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June 2010

The evolution of hominin ontogenies.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León

Semin Cell Dev Biol 2010 Jun 10;21(4):441-52. Epub 2009 Nov 10.

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

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June 2010

The face of Siamopithecus: new geometric-morphometric evidence for its anthropoid status.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce De León Yaowalak Chaimanee Renaud Lebrun Paul Tafforeau Sasidhorn Khansubhaand Jean-Jacques Jaeger

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2009 Nov;292(11):1734-44

Anthropological Institute, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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November 2009

New insights into mid-late Pleistocene fossil hominin paranasal sinus morphology.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce De León Ralf W Schmitz Christopher B Stringer

Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2008 Nov;291(11):1506-16

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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November 2008

Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolution of human life history.

Authors:
Marcia S Ponce de León Lubov Golovanova Vladimir Doronichev Galina Romanova Takeru Akazawa Osamu Kondo Hajime Ishida Christoph P E Zollikofer

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 Sep 8;105(37):13764-8. Epub 2008 Sep 8.

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.

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September 2008

Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia.

Authors:
David Lordkipanidze Tea Jashashvili Abesalom Vekua Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer G Philip Rightmire Herman Pontzer Reid Ferring Oriol Oms Martha Tappen Maia Bukhsianidze Jordi Agusti Ralf Kahlke Gocha Kiladze Bienvenido Martinez-Navarro Alexander Mouskhelishvili Medea Nioradze Lorenzo Rook

Nature 2007 Sep;449(7160):305-10

Georgian National Museum, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia.

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September 2007

A fourth hominin skull from Dmanisi, Georgia.

Authors:
David Lordkipanidze Abesalom Vekua Reid Ferring G Philip Rightmire Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León Jordi Agusti Gocha Kiladze Alexander Mouskhelishvili Medea Nioradze Martha Tappen

Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 2006 Nov;288(11):1146-57

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.

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November 2006

Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce de León Daniel E Lieberman Franck Guy David Pilbeam Andossa Likius Hassane T Mackaye Patrick Vignaud Michel Brunet

Nature 2005 Apr;434(7034):755-9

Anthropologisches Institut/MultiMedia Laboratorium, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.

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April 2005

New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad.

Authors:
Michel Brunet Franck Guy David Pilbeam Daniel E Lieberman Andossa Likius Hassane T Mackaye Marcia S Ponce de León Christoph P E Zollikofer Patrick Vignaud

Nature 2005 Apr;434(7034):752-5

Laboratoire de Géobiologie, Biochronologie et Paléontologie Humaine, CNRS UMR 6046, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Poitiers, 40 Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France.

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April 2005

Anthropology: the earliest toothless hominin skull.

Authors:
David Lordkipanidze Abesalom Vekua Reid Ferring G Philip Rightmire Jordi Agusti Gocha Kiladze Alexander Mouskhelishvili Medea Nioradze Marcia S Ponce de León Martha Tappen Christoph P E Zollikofer

Nature 2005 Apr;434(7034):717-8

Georgian State Museum, Tbilisi 0105, Georgia.

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April 2005

Evidence for interpersonal violence in the St. Cesaire Neanderthal.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce De Leon Bernard Vandermeersch Francois Leveque

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 Apr 23;99(9):6444-8. Epub 2002 Apr 23.

Anthropological Institute and MultiMedia Laboratory/Department of Computer Science, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.

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April 2002

Visualizing patterns of craniofacial shape variation in Homo sapiens.

Authors:
Christoph P E Zollikofer Marcia S Ponce De León

Proc Biol Sci 2002 Apr;269(1493):801-7

Anthropologisches Institut and Institut für Informatik, MultiMedia Laboratorium, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.

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April 2002