Publications of NMG (arising from NMG funding) include:

1) Marcus, L. F., Frost, S. R. and Delson, E. (1997) Comparison of Polhemus 3Draw Pro and Microscribe 3DX (Precision and/or Comparison of Data Acquisition Hardware). Internet-publication, posted to Biological Morphometrics Mailing List. (PDF 12 KB)

2) Delson, E., Harvati, K., Reddy, D., Marcus, L. F., Mowbray, K., Sawyer, G. J., Jacob, T. and Márquez, S. (2001) The Sambungmacan 3 Homo erectus calvaria: a comparative morphometric and morphological analysis, Anatomical Record, 262:. 360-377. (PDF 801 KB)

3) Singleton, M. (2002). Patterns of cranial shape variation in the Papionini (Primates: Cercopithecinae). Journal of Human Evolution, 42: 547-578. (PDF 908 KB)

4) Friess, M., Marcus, L. F., Reddy, D. P., and Delson, E. (2002) The use of 3D laser scanning techniques for the morphometric analysis of human facial shape variation. Three-Dimensional Imaging in Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology. (Proceedings of the XIVth UISPP Congress, 2001), ed. B. Mafart and H. Delingette. British Archaeological Reports, S1049, 31-35. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK. (PDF 626 KB)

5) Frost, S.R., Marcus, L. F., Reddy, D. P., Bookstein, F. and Delson, E. (2003) Cranial allometry, phylogeography and systematics of large bodied papionins (Primates: Cercopithecinae) inferred from geometric morphometric analysis of landmark data. Anatomical Record 275A: 1048-1072. (PDF 1,650 KB for "preprint")

(See its cover and comment by Jolly: Jolly, C. (2003) Cranial Anatomy and Baboon Diversity. The Anatomical Record Part A, 275A: 1043-1047. (PDF 59 KB for "preprint")

6) Harvati, K. (2002). Models of shape variation between and within species and the Neanderthal taxonomic position: A 3D geometric morphometrics approach based on temporal bone morphology. Three-Dimensional Imaging in Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology. (Proceedings of the XIVth UISPP Congress, 2001), ed. B. Mafart and H. Delingette. British Archaeological Reports, S1049, 25-30. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK. (PDF 752 KB)

7) Harvati, K. (2003) The Neanderthal taxonomic position: models of intra- and inter-specific craniofacial variation. Journal of Human Evolution, 44: 107-132. (PDF 437 KB)

8) Harvati, K. (2003). Quantitative analysis of Neanderthal temporal bone morphology using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 120; 323-338. (PDF 282 KB)

9) McNulty, K. (2005) A geometric morphometric assessment of the hominoid supraorbital region: Affinities of the Eurasian Miocene hominoids Dryopithecus, Graecopithecus, and Sivapithecus. In Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology (D. Slice, ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers: New York, pp. 349-373. (PDF 243 KB)

10) Reddy, D. P., Harvati, K. and Kim, J. (2005) Alternative approaches to ridge-curve analysis using the example of the Neanderthal occipital 'bun'. In Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology (D. Slice, ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers: New York, pp. 99-115. (PDF 188 KB)

11) Harvati, K., Frost, S.R., McNulty, K.P. (2004) Neanderthanl taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D Primate Models of intra_ and interspecific differences. PNAS, 101: 1147-1152. (PDF 371 KB)

12) Singleton, M. (2005) Craniofacial shape variation in cercopithecine primates. In Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology (D. Slice, ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers: New York, pp. 313-347. (PDF 265 KB)

13) McNulty, K. (2004) A geometric morphometric assessment of hominoid crania: conservative African apes and their liberal implications. Annals of Anatomy, 186:429-433. (PDF 573 KB)

14) Harvati, K. (2004) 3-D geometric morphometric analysis of temporal bone landmarks in Neanderthals and modern humans. In: (Elewa, Ashraf M. T. ed.) Morphometrics, Applications in Biology and Paleontology Springer-Verlag, p. 245-258.

15) Nicholson, E & Harvati, K. (2006) Quantitative analysis of human mandibular shape using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (PDF 503 KB)

16) Singleton, M. (2005) Geometric morphometric analysis of functional divergence in mangabey facial form. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 82: 29-46 [2004]. (PDF 9.89 MB)

17) McNulty, K.P., Frost, S.R. & Strait, D.S. (2006) Examining affinities of the Taung child by developmentral simulation. Journal of Human Evolution, 51: 274-296. (PDF 631 KB)

18) Harcourt-Smith, W.E., Tallman, M., Frost, S.R., Wiley, D. F. & Delson, E. (2008) Analysis of selected hominoid joint surfaces using laser scanning and geometric morphometrics: a preliminary report. In Eric J. Sargis and Marian Dagosto, eds. Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay; Springer: Dordrecht. (PDF 198 KB)

19) Harvati, K. & Weaver, T. (2006) Reliability of cranial morphology in reconstructing Neanderthal phylogeny. In K. Harvati & T. Harrison, eds. Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives, 239254. Springer: Dordrecht. (PDF 140 KB)

20) Harvati, K. & Weaver, T. (2006) Human cranial anatomy and the differential preservation of population history and climate signatures. Anatomical Record 288A: 1225-1233. (PDF 198 KB)

21) Gunz, P. and Harvati, K. (2007) The Neanderthal ??chignon??: Variation, integration, and homology. Journal of Human Evolution 52: 262-274. (PDF 731 KB)

25) Harvati, K., Gunz, P. & Grigorescu, D. (2007) The Cioclovina partial cranium: affinities of an early modern European. Journal of Human Evolution 53: 732-746. (PDF 388 KB)

26) Grine, F. E.,Bailey, R. M., Harvati, K. Nathan, R. P., Morris, A. G.,Henderson, G. M., Ribot, I.,Pike, A. W. G. (2007) Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern Human Origins. Science 315: 226-229. (PDF 245 KB)

29) Baab, K. L. (2008 in press) A re-evaluation of the taxonomic affinities of the early Homo cranium KNM-ER 42700. Journal of Human Evolution (PDF 219 KB)

30) Baab, K. L. (2008) The taxonomic implications of cranial shape variation in Homo erectus. Journal of Human Evolution 54: 827-847. (PDF 218 KB)

31) Alcantara,D. Carmichael, O. Delson, E., Harcourt-Smith, W., Sterner, K., Frost, S., Dutton, R., Thompson, P., Aizenstein, H., Lopez, O., Becker, J. and Amenta, N. (2007) Localized Components Analysis. In: N. Karssemeijer and B. Lelieveldt (Eds.): Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Proc. IPMI 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 4584, pp. 519531, Springer, Berlin. (PDF 1.5 MB)

Abstracts & Dissertations
1998 Frost, S. R., L. F. Marcus, E. Delson and D. Reddy. Quantification of facial variation in the Papionini (Cercopithecinae, Cercopithecidae) (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Supplement 26: 84-85.

1999 Marcus, L. F., S.R. Frost, F. Bookstein, D. Reddy and E. Delson. Comparison of landmarks among Papio skulls, with extension of Procrustes methods to ridge curves. (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol., Supplement 28: 190.

2001 Harvati, K. Models of shape variation within and among species and the Neanderthal taxonomic position: a 3-D geometric morphometric approach on temporal bone morphology. J. hum. Evol. (Abstracts of the Paleoanthropology Society Meeting) 40: A9-A10.

2001 Harvati, K. The Neanderthal problem: 3-D geometric morphometric models of cranial shape variation within and among species. PhD dissertation, City University of New York.

2001 Frost, S. R. Fossil Cercopithecidae from the Afar Depression, Ethiopia: Species systematics and comparison to the Turkana Basin. Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York.

2001 M. Friess, E. Delson. L. F. Marcus, D. P. Reddy. The use of laser scanning techniques in paleoanthropology: A preliminary evaluation (abstract). SCANNING 2001: 13th annual meeting (submitted abstracts not published)

2002 E. Delson, M. Friess, L. Marcus and D. Reddy. Assessment of quantitative characters in the distal humerus among hominids (great apes and hominins) (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 34: 61.

2002 M. Friess, Revisiting human cold adaptation: craniofacial shape assessed by 3D laser scanning (abstract), Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol., Supp 34: 72.

2002 K. Harvati, D. Reddy and L. Marcus, Analysis of the posterior cranial profile morphology in Neanderthals and modern humans using geometric morphometrics (abstract), Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol, Supp 34: 83.

2002 D. Reddy, S. Frost, M. Friess, L. Marcus and E. Delson. An interactive database for primate morphometric studies (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 34: 129.

2003 K. L. Baab, N. C. Ting, T. D. Capellini, S. E. Hagell, and E. Delson. Precision in 3D landmark data collection for geometric morphometrics (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 36: 61.

2003 E. Delson, D. Reddy, S. Frost, F.J. Rohlf, M. Friess, K. McNulty, K. Baab, T. Capellini, and S. E. Hagell. 3D visualization of inferred intermediates on a phylogenetic tree--Applications in paleoanthropology (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 36: 86-87.

2003 S. E. Hagell and K. P. McNulty. An assessment of hylobatid monomorphism using geometric morphometrics (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 36: 107.

2003 D. P. Reddy, J. Kim, S. Frost, F. Bookstein and E. Delson. Allometry in the skulls of Papio subspecies: Alternative visualization techniques (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 36: 175-176.

2003 McNulty, K. P. Geometric morphometric analyses of extant and fossil hominoid craniofacial morphology. PhD dissertation, City University of New York.

2004 E. Delson and S.R. Frost Paradolichopithecus: a large-bodied terrestrial papionin (Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of western Eurasia (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 38:85.

2004 S.R. Frost, L.F. Marcus, F.L. Bookstein, D.P. Reddy, and E. Delson Cranial allometry, phylogeography and systematics of baboons inferred from geometric morphometric analysis of landmark data (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 38: 97

2004 W.E.H. Harcourt-Smith, J. Kim, and E. Delson Estimating hominoid reciprocal joint congruence: a comparison of two different morphometric techniques (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 38: 108-109

2004 N. Ting, W.E.H. Harcourt-Smith, S.R. Frost, and E. Delson Description and analysis of postcranial elements of Paradolichopithecus arvernensis: A large-bodied papionin from the Pliocene of Eurasia (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 38:195.

2004 K. Baab and K. Harvati A 3D analysis of shape differences in the scapula between Neanderthals and modern humans using geomtric morphometrics (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 38: 57.

2005 T. Peburn Differences in patterns of shape variation among cranial regions in the Papionini (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 40: 164.

2005 M. Tallman Quantifying cross-sectional geometry in modern human long bones using Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the purposes of ancestry attribution (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 40: 204-205.

2005 F. J. Rohlf, N. Amenta, E. Delson, D. F. Wiley, W. Harcourt-Smith, S. Frost, A. L. Rosenberger, D. A. Alcantara, and L. Tallman Visualizing primate evolution - reification of a statistical model (abstract) Classification Society of North America 2005 meeting, p. 62.

2005 Frost, S.R., Ting. N., Harcout-Smith, W.E.H., and Delson, E. Positional and locomotor behavior of Paradolichopithecus arvernensis as inferred from the functional morphology of the postcrania. Amer. J. Primatol., 66(S1):134-135.

2005 D. F. Wiley, N. Amenta, D. A. Alcantara, D. Ghosh, Y. J. Kil, E. Delson, W. Harcourt-Smith, F. J. Rohlf, K. St. John, and B. Hamann Evolutionary morphing (extended abstract and associated video presentation). IEEE Visualization Conference 2005, pp. 1-8.

2006 Baab, K. L., Freidline, S. E. and Wang, S. L. An investigation of robusticity in modern human crania: Implications for Homo erectus. PaleoAnthropology A50. (PDF)

2006 McNulty, K.P. and Baab, K. L. Sexual dimorphism in hominin supraorbital morphology (abstract). PaleoAnthropology A65 (PDF)

2006 Pilbrow, VC and Delson, E. Partitioning of dental variation within and among chimpanzee, gorilla and baboon taxa: Implications for taxonomy and hominin models (abstract). PaleoAnthropology A69 (PDF)

2006 Delson, E., Wiley, D., Harcourt-Smith, W., Frost, S.R. and Rosenberger, A.L. 3D approaches in paleoanthropology using geometric morphometrics and laser scanning (abstract). J. Vert. Paleo. 26: 55A-56A (PDF)

2007 Baab, K. L. Magnitude and pattern of geographic variation in cranial shape within Homo erectus, especially from Asia (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anth. Suppl. 44: 66-67

2007 Delson, E., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., Frost, S.R., Rosenberger, A.L., Rohlf, F. J., Amenta, A.B., and Wiley, D.F. 3D approaches in paleoanthropology: small steps beyond William White Howells (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anth. Suppl. 44: 98. (PDF)

2007 Peburn, T. A. The ins and outs of mangabeys: An examination of internal versus external basicranial and facial architecture (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anth. Suppl. 44: 185.

2007 Singleton, A. M. Geometric morphometric analysis of mangabey suborbital morphology (abstract). Amer. J. Phys. Anth. Suppl. 44: 219

2007 Baab, K. L. Cranial shape variation in Homo erectus. PhD dissertation, City University of New York.