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David R. Begun

David R. Begun

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
5401
World Ranking
5408
National Ranking
347

Overview

David R. Begun is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected fields, mainly focusing on Psychology and Earth and Planetary Sciences. The subfields covered include Social Psychology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Genetics.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics notably including Primate Behavior and Ecology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Recent publications reflect the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of their research. Select recent papers include:

  • Neogene hyperaridity in Arabia drove the directions of mammalian dispersal between Africa and Eurasia, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the late Miocene apes Hispanopithecus and Rudapithecus based on vestibular morphology, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reply to: Reevaluating bipedalism in Danuvius, 2020, Nature
  • A new ape from Türkiye and the radiation of late Miocene hominines, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Miocene hominoid locality of Alsótelekes (Hungary), 2022, Geobios

David R. Begun frequently collaborates with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Madelaine Böhme, Nikolaï Spassov, Mahmoud Reza Majidifard, Andreas Gärtner, and Uwe Kirscher.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in selected academic venues such as Communications Biology, Journal of Human Evolution, Communications Earth & Environment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • Origin of human bipedalism: The knuckle-walking hypothesis revisited.

    Brian G. Richmond;David R. Begun;David S. Strait

  • Miocene fossil hominids and the chimp-human clade.

    David R. Begun

  • Function, phylogeny, and fossils : miocene hominoid evolution and adaptations

    David R. Begun;Carol V. Ward;Michael D. Rose

  • Relations among the great apes and humans: New interpretations based on the fossil great ape Dryopithecus

    David R. Begun

  • Events in Hominoid Evolution

    David R. Begun;Carol V. Ward;Michael D. Rose

  • Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids

    David R. Begun

  • European Miocene Hominids and the Origin of the African Ape and Human Clade

    David R. Begun;Mariam C. Nargolwalla;László Kordos

  • Phyletic diversity and locomotion in primitive European hominids.

    David R. Begun

  • Comparative and functional anatomy of Proconsul phalanges from the Kaswanga Primate Site, Rusinga Island, Kenya

    David R. Begun;Mark F. Teaford;Alan Walker

  • New catarrhine phalanges from Rudabánya (Northeastern Hungary) and the problem of parallelism and convergence in hominoid postcranial morphology

    David R. Begun

  • A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans

    Madelaine Böhme;Nikolai Spassov;Jochen Fuss;Adrian Tröscher

  • Locomotor activity influences muscle architecture and bone growth but not muscle attachment site morphology.

    Karyne N. Rabey;Karyne N. Rabey;Karyne N. Rabey;David J. Green;David J. Green;Andrea B. Taylor;David R. Begun

  • The evolution of thought : evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence

    Anne E. Russon;David R. Begun

  • Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium

    R. L. Bernor;L. Kordos;L. Rook;J. C. Agustí

  • Miocene Hominids and the Origins of the African Apes and Humans

    David R. Begun

  • Restoration of the type and palate of Ankarapithecus meteai: Taxonomic and phylogenetic implications

    David R. Begun;Erksin Gülec

  • A systematic revision of Proconsul with the description of a new genus of early Miocene hominoid.

    Kieran P. McNulty;David R. Begun;Jay Kelley;Fredrick K. Manthi

  • Phyletic Affinities and Functional Convergence in Dryopithecus and Other Miocene and Living Hominids

    David R. Begun;László Kordos

  • Dryopithecins, Darwin, de Bonis, and the European origin of the African apes and human clade

    David R. Begun

  • The oldest Eurasian hominoid

    Elmar P.J. Heizmann;David R. Begun

  • Broken fingers: retesting locomotor hypotheses for fossil hominoids using fragmentary proximal phalanges and high-resolution polynomial curve fitting (HR-PCF)

    Andrew S. Deane;David R. Begun

Frequent Co-Authors

Madelaine Böhme
Madelaine Böhme University of Tübingen
Philipp Gunz
Philipp Gunz Max Planck Society
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Denis Geraads
Denis Geraads Sorbonne University
Salvador Moyà-Solà
Salvador Moyà-Solà Autonomous University of Barcelona
Bernard Thierry
Bernard Thierry Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David M. Alba
David M. Alba Autonomous University of Barcelona
Peter W. Lucas
Peter W. Lucas George Washington University
Stephen F. Ferrari
Stephen F. Ferrari Universidade Federal de Sergipe

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