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Katerina Harvati

Katerina Harvati

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
12278
World Ranking
3589
National Ranking
199

Earth Science

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38
Citations
9285
World Ranking
6338
National Ranking
454

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Katerina Harvati is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their work is situated primarily within the fields of Social Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. The subfields most represented in their publications include Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology, Geometry and Topology, and Genetics.

The research topics frequently addressed by Harvati comprise Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Morphological variations and asymmetry, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Forensic and Genetic Research.

Recent publications by Harvati include the following:

  • The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity (2021), Current Biology
  • Human-elephant interactions: from past to present (2021), IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
  • 2000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from metagenomic analysis of Egyptian mummified individuals (2020), BMC Biology
  • New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the "Tübingen University Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity" method (2021), Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

Harvati frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Vangelis Tourloukis, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, George E. Konidaris, Eleni Panagopoulou, and Panagiotis Karkanas.

The primary publication venues for Harvati's work are the Journal of Human Evolution, Scientific Reports, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, and American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Their contributions span multiple aspects of human evolutionary studies, combining concepts from anthropology, archeology, and paleontology to investigate historical human behavior, morphological variation, and genetic research.

In 2009, Harvati was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

    Jean Jacques Hublin;Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer;Shara E. Bailey;Sarah E. Freidline

  • The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Qiaomei Fu;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Mateja Hajdinjak;Martin Petr

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Iain Mathieson;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

  • Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour

    Stefano Benazzi;Katerina Douka;Cinzia Fornai;Catherine C. Bauer

  • Human cranial anatomy and the differential preservation of population history and climate signatures

    Katerina Harvati;Timothy D. Weaver

  • Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

    Cosimo Posth;Gabriel Renaud;Alissa Mittnik;Alissa Mittnik;Dorothée G. Drucker

  • Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

    Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Nathan Nakatsuka;Nathan Nakatsuka;Iosif Lazaridis;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund

  • Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

    K Harvati;C Roding;AM Bosman;FA Karakostis

  • Climate-related variation of the human nasal cavity.

    Marlijn L. Noback;Katerina Harvati;Fred Spoor

  • Climate signatures in the morphological differentiation of worldwide modern human populations.

    Mark Hubbe;Tsunehiko Hanihara;Katerina Harvati

  • Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences

    Katerina Harvati;Stephen R. Frost;Kieran P. McNulty

  • Quantitative analysis of human mandibular shape using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics.

    Elisabeth Nicholson;Katerina Harvati

  • Strontium isotope evidence of Neanderthal mobility at the site of Lakonis, Greece using laser-ablation PIMMS

    Michael P. Richards;Katerina Harvati;Vaughan Grimes;Colin I. Smith

  • Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods

    Verena J. Schuenemann;Alexander Peltzer;Beatrix Welte;W. Paul van Pelt

  • The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: morphology and chronology

    Katerina Harvati;Chris Stringer;Rainer Grün;Maxime Aubert

  • Genomic and cranial phenotype data support multiple modern human dispersals from Africa and a southern route into Asia

    Hugo Reyes-Centeno;Silvia Ghirotto;Florent Détroit;Dominique Grimaud-Hervé

  • Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern Human Origins

    F. E. Grine;R. M. Bailey;K. Harvati;R. P. Nathan

  • The Neanderthal “chignon”: Variation, integration, and homology

    Philipp Gunz;Katerina Harvati

  • Evolution of the base of the brain in highly encephalized human species

    Markus Bastir;Antonio Rosas;Philipp Gunz;Angel Peña-Melian

  • Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives

    Katerina Harvati;Terry Harrison

  • The Neanderthal taxonomic position: models of intra- and inter-specific craniofacial variation

    Katerina Harvati

  • The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome

    James A. Fellows Yates;James A. Fellows Yates;Irina Marie Velsko;Franziska Aron;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth

  • Quantitative analysis of Neanderthal temporal bone morphology using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics.

    Katerina Harvati

  • Author Correction: New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens.

    Jean Jacques Hublin;Jean Jacques Hublin;Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer;Shara E. Bailey;Sarah E. Freidline

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France
Philipp Gunz
Philipp Gunz Max Planck Society
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Panagiotis Karkanas
Panagiotis Karkanas American School of Classical Studies at Athens
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Wolfgang Haak
Wolfgang Haak Max Planck Society
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Dorothée G. Drucker
Dorothée G. Drucker University of Tübingen
Nicholas J. Conard
Nicholas J. Conard University of Tübingen
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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