2026 Peter S. Ungar: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	65	1820	1741	664	625	176	13240

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter S. Ungar is affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecology, Orthodontics, Paleontology, Social Psychology, and Anthropology.

The main topics addressed in Ungar's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Dental Materials and Restorations, Dental Erosion and Treatment, and Human-Animal Interaction Studies.

Ungar has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Biosurface and Biotribology, Mammalian Biology, and Journal of Human Evolution.

Their recent published papers cover a range of subjects related to dental microwear and early hominin diets, with titles and publication years as follows:

Dental microwear as a behavioral proxy for distinguishing between canids at the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) site of Předmostí, Czech Republic, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
The dental microwear of hard-object feeding in laboratory Sapajus apella and its implications for dental microwear formation, 2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Grit your teeth and chew your food: Implications of food material properties and abrasives for rates of dental microwear formation in laboratory Sapajus apella (Primates), 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Problems with Paranthropus, 2022, Quaternary International
Changing perspectives on early hominin diets, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ungar often collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including Anderson T. Hara, Aleksandr Sokolov, Natalia Sokolova, Dorothée Ehrich, and George J. Eckert.

In 2012, Ungar was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins

Robert S. Scott;Peter S. Ungar;Torbjorn S. Bergstrom;Christopher A. Brown

642
Citations
Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors

Mark F. Teaford;Peter S. Ungar

530
Citations
Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations.

Robert S. Scott;Peter S. Ungar;Torbjorn S. Bergstrom;Christopher A. Brown

467
Citations
Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity

Peter S. Ungar

399
Citations
The Diets of Early Hominins

Peter S. Ungar;Matt Sponheimer

341
Citations
Quantification of dental microwear by tandem scanning confocal microscopy and scale-sensitive fractal analyses.

Peter S Ungar;Christopher A Brown;Torbjorn S Bergstrom;Alan Walkers

312
Citations
Dental topography and diets of Australopithecus afarensis and early Homo.

Peter Ungar

311
Citations
Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei

Peter S. Ungar;Frederick E. Grine;Frederick E. Grine;Mark F. Teaford

304
Citations
Diet in early Homo : A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility

Peter S. Ungar;Frederick E. Grine;Mark F. Teaford

294
Citations
The diet of Australopithecus sediba

Amanda G. Henry;Peter S. Ungar;Peter S. Ungar;Benjamin H. Passey;Matt Sponheimer;Matt Sponheimer

240
Citations
Mammalian dental function and wear: A review

Peter S. Ungar

233
Citations
Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use

Peter S. Ungar

222
Citations
A solution to the worn tooth conundrum in primate functional anatomy

Peter S. Ungar;Francis M'Kirera

216
Citations
The dietary adaptations of European Miocene catarrhines.

Peter S. Ungar;Richard F. Kay

213
Citations
Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets

Robert S. Scott;Mark F. Teaford;Peter S. Ungar

200
Citations
EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF TOOTH WEAR ON FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY USING DENTAL TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

Peter Ungar;Malcolm Williamson

196
Citations
Error rates in dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopy.

Frederick E. Grine;P. S. Ungar;M. F. Teaford

194
Citations
Dust accumulation in the canopy: a potential cause of dental microwear in primates.

Peter S. Ungar;Mark F. Teaford;Kenneth E. Glander;Robert F. Pastor

187
Citations
Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa

Peter S. Ungar;Gildas Merceron;Robert S. Scott

186
Citations
Fruit Preferences of Four Sympatric Primate Species at Ketambe, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

Peter S. Ungar

179
Citations
Dental allometry, morphology, and wear as evidence for diet in fossil primates

Peter Ungar

179
Citations
Occlusal relief changes with molar wear in Pan troglodytes troglodytes and Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

Francis M'kirera;Peter S. Ungar

167
Citations
Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins.

Frederick E. Grine;Matt Sponheimer;Peter S. Ungar;Julia Lee-Thorp

162
Citations
Hard-object feeding in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and interpretation of early hominin feeding ecology.

David J. Daegling;W. Scott McGraw;Peter S. Ungar;James D. Pampush

153
Citations
Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution

Mark F. Teaford;Peter S. Ungar

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark F. Teaford RMIT University

Frederick E. Grine Stony Brook University

Matt Sponheimer University of Colorado Boulder

Linmao Qian Southwest Jiaotong University

Zhongrong Zhou Southwest Jiaotong University

Richard F. Kay Duke University

Lee R. Berger James Cook University

Callum F. Ross University of Chicago

Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France

Darryl J. de Ruiter Texas A&M University

External Links

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