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Audax Mabulla is affiliated with the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a concentration on anthropology, archeology, social psychology, paleontology, and physiology. The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, primate behavior and ecology, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, archaeology and rock art studies, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and forensic and genetic research.

Recent publications by Audax Mabulla include the following papers:

  • Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome, 2021, Cell
  • Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers, 2022, Nature
  • Sitting, squatting, and the evolutionary biology of human inactivity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano, Agness Gidna, Fernando Diéz Martín, and David Uribelarrea.

Audax Mabulla's published work has appeared repeatedly in several academic venues, notably:

  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers

    Stephanie L. Schnorr;Marco Candela;Simone Rampelli;Manuela Centanni

  • Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

    Pontus Skoglund;Jessica C. Thompson;Mary E. Prendergast;Alissa Mittnik

  • Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

    Herman Pontzer;David A. Raichlen;Brian M. Wood;Audax Z. P. Mabulla

  • Evidence of Lévy walk foraging patterns in human hunter–gatherers

    David A. Raichlen;Brian M. Wood;Adam D. Gordon;Audax Z. P. Mabulla

  • Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome.

    Mathieu Groussin;Mathilde Poyet;Ainara Sistiaga;Ainara Sistiaga;Sean M. Kearney

  • The Origin of The Acheulean: The 1.7 Million-Year-Old Site of FLK West, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

    F. Diez-Martín;P. Sánchez Yustos;D. Uribelarrea;E. Baquedano

  • Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa

    Mary E. Prendergast;Mary E. Prendergast;Mark Lipson;Elizabeth A. Sawchuk;Iñigo Olalde

  • Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

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  • On meat eating and human evolution: A taphonomic analysis of BK4b (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), and its bearing on hominin megafaunal consumption

    M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;H.T. Bunn;A.Z.P. Mabulla;E. Baquedano

  • First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Enrique Baquedano;Audax Mabulla

  • New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains.

    Luke A. Gliganic;Zenobia Jacobs;Richard G. Roberts;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

  • Physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in hunter-gatherers

    David A. Raichlen;Herman Pontzer;Jacob A. Harris;Audax Z. P. Mabulla

  • Honey, Hadza, hunter-gatherers, and human evolution

    Frank W. Marlowe;J. Colette Berbesque;Brian Wood;Alyssa Crittenden

  • Were Olduvai Hominins making butchering tools or battering tools? Analysis of a recently excavated lithic assemblage from BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

    Fernando Diez-Martín;Policarpo Sánchez;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Audax Mabulla

  • Energy expenditure and activity among Hadza hunter-gatherers.

    Herman Pontzer;David A. Raichlen;Brian M. Wood;Melissa Emery Thompson

  • Unraveling hominin behavior at another anthropogenic site from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): new archaeological and taphonomic research at BK, Upper Bed II.

    M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;A. Mabulla;H.T. Bunn;R. Barba

  • Phytoliths infer locally dense and heterogeneous paleovegetation at FLK North and surrounding localities during upper Bed I time, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

    Doris Barboni;Gail M. Ashley;Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo;Henry T. Bunn

  • Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Fernando Diez-Martín;Audax Mabulla

  • The Middle to Later Stone Age Technological Transition in East Africa. New Data from Mumba Rockshelter Bed V (Tanzania) and their Implications for the Origin of Modern Human Behavior

    Fernando Diez-Martín;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Policarpo Sánchez;Audax Z.P. Mabulla

  • Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Jason L. Heaton;Jason L. Heaton;José Yravedra

  • Aggression, digit ratio, and variation in the androgen receptor, serotonin transporter, and dopamine D4 receptor genes in African foragers: the Hadza.

    Marina L. Butovskaya;Vasiliy A. Vasilyev;Oleg E. Lazebny;Valentina N. Burkova

  • An ecological neo-taphonomic study of carcass consumption by lions in Tarangire National Park (Tanzania) and its relevance for human evolutionary biology

    Agness O. Gidna;Bernard Kisui;Audax Mabulla;Charles Musiba

  • Hadza sleep biology: Evidence for flexible sleep-wake patterns in hunter-gatherers.

    David R. Samson;Alyssa N. Crittenden;Ibrahim A. Mabulla;Audax Z.P. Mabulla

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo University of Alcalá
Enrique Baquedano
Enrique Baquedano University of Alcalá
Henry T. Bunn
Henry T. Bunn University of Wisconsin–Madison
José Yravedra
José Yravedra Complutense University of Madrid
Travis Rayne Pickering
Travis Rayne Pickering University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mary E. Prendergast
Mary E. Prendergast Rice University
Gail M. Ashley
Gail M. Ashley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Frank W. Marlowe
Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge
Alfredo Pérez-González
Alfredo Pérez-González Complutense University of Madrid
Marina Butovskaya
Marina Butovskaya Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

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