C. Owen Lovejoy

Research.com Recognitions

• 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids

  Tim D. White;Berhane Asfaw;Yonas Beyene;Yohannes Haile-Selassie

  897
  Citations

• Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopia

  Berhane Asfaw;Tim D. White;C. Owen Lovejoy;Bruce Latimer;Bruce Latimer

  809
  Citations

• Multifactorial determination of skeletal age at death: A method and blind tests of its accuracy

  C. Owen Lovejoy;C. Owen Lovejoy;Richard S. Meindl;Robert P. Mensforth;Thomas J. Barton

  742
  Citations

• Morphology of the Pliocene partial hominid skeleton (A.L. 288-1) from the Hadar formation, Ethiopia

  Donald C. Johanson;C. Owen Lovejoy;William H. Kimbel;William H. Kimbel;Tim D. White

  559
  Citations

• Reexamining Human Origins in Light of Ardipithecus ramidus

  C. Owen Lovejoy

  511
  Citations

• The Great Divides: Ardipithecus ramidus Reveals the Postcrania of Our Last Common Ancestors with African Apes

  C. Owen Lovejoy;Gen Suwa;Scott W. Simpson;Jay H. Matternes

  399
  Citations

• The Pelvis and Femur of Ardipithecus ramidus: The Emergence of Upright Walking

  C. Owen Lovejoy;Gen Suwa;Linda B Spurlock;Berhane Asfaw

  393
  Citations

• The natural history of human gait and posture: Part 1. Spine and pelvis

  C. Owen Lovejoy

  372
  Citations

• The obstetric pelvis of A.L. 288-1 (Lucy)

  Robert G. Tague;C. Owen Lovejoy;C. Owen Lovejoy

  339
  Citations

• Combining prehension and propulsion: the foot of Ardipithecus ramidus.

  C. Owen Lovejoy;Bruce Latimer;Gen Suwa;Berhane Asfaw

  329
  Citations

• The Calcaneus of Australopithecus afarensis and Its Implications for the Evolution of Bipedality

  Bruce Latimer;Bruce Latimer;C. Owen Lovejoy;C. Owen Lovejoy;C. Owen Lovejoy

  328
  Citations

• An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

  Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Bruce M. Latimer;Mulugeta Alene;Alan L. Deino

  305
  Citations

• Careful Climbing in the Miocene: The Forelimbs of Ardipithecus ramidus and Humans Are Primitive

  C. Owen Lovejoy;Scott W. Simpson;Tim D. White;Berhane Asfaw

  298
  Citations

• Paleobiological implications of the Ardipithecus ramidus dentition.

  Gen Suwa;Reiko T. Kono;Scott W. Simpson;Berhane Asfaw

  284
  Citations

• Morphological Analysis of the Mammalian Postcranium: A Developmental Perspective

  C. Owen Lovejoy;Martin J. Cohn;Tim D. White

  240
  Citations

• The Maka femur and its bearing on the antiquity of human walking: applying contemporary concepts of morphogenesis to the human fossil record.

  C. Owen Lovejoy;Richard S. Meindl;James C. Ohman;Kingsbury G. Heiple

  239
  Citations

• Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

  Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  236
  Citations

• The biomechanical analysis of bone strength: a method and its application to platycnemia.

  C. Owen Lovejoy;C. Owen Lovejoy;Albert H. Burstein;Kingsbury G. Heiple;Kingsbury G. Heiple

  223
  Citations

• Neither chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both

  Tim D. White;C. Owen Lovejoy;Berhane Asfaw;Joshua P. Carlson

  220
  Citations

• Hominid tarsal, metatarsal, and phalangeal bones recovered from the Hadar formation: 1974–1977 collections

  Bruce M. Latimer;Bruce M. Latimer;C. Owen Lovejoy;Donald C. Johanson;Yves Coppens

  206
  Citations