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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

C. Owen Lovejoy is affiliated with Kent State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with contributions spanning areas such as social psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work covers a range of topics including primate behavior and ecology, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neuropeptides and animal physiology, regulation of appetite and obesity, and biochemical analysis and sensing techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by C. Owen Lovejoy include:

  • "The nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum exhibit greater dopaminergic innervation in humans compared to other primates" (2021), published in Brain Structure and Function
  • "Hedonic eating, obesity, and addiction result from increased neuropeptide Y in the nucleus accumbens during human brain evolution" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping" (2021), published in Lithic Technology
  • "The foot of the human-chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)" (2021), published in Journal of Human Evolution
  • "Odd-nosed monkey scapular morphology converges on that of arm-swinging apes" (2020), published in Journal of Human Evolution

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mary Ann Raghanti
  • Richard S. Meindl
  • Metin I. Eren
  • Elaine N. Miller
  • Kimberley A. Phillips

Publication venues where C. Owen Lovejoy has frequently contributed are:

  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Lithic Technology
  • American Antiquity

Among honors received by C. Owen Lovejoy are:

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

Best Publications

  • Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Reexamining Human Origins in Light of Ardipithecus ramidus

    C. Owen Lovejoy

  • 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

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

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

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

    C. Owen Lovejoy

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Paleobiological implications of the Ardipithecus ramidus dentition.

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

  • Morphological Analysis of the Mammalian Postcranium: A Developmental Perspective

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

  • 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

  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Gen Suwa
Gen Suwa University of Tokyo
Chet C. Sherwood
Chet C. Sherwood George Washington University
Freddie H. Fu
Freddie H. Fu University of Pittsburgh
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
William K. Hart
William K. Hart Miami University
Giday WoldeGabriel
Giday WoldeGabriel Los Alamos National Laboratory
Brian S. Currie
Brian S. Currie Miami University
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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