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Overview

Robert D. Martin is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research covers several subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Psychology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Sociology and Political Science. The main research topics addressed include Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Fatty Acid Research and Health, Birth, Development, and Health, the Delphi Technique in Research, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Recent publications by Robert D. Martin include:

  • The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Impact of omega-3 fatty acid DHA and EPA supplementation in pregnant or breast-feeding women on cognitive performance of children: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Nutrition Reviews
  • Population genetics of wild Macaca fascicularis with low-coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens, 2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • Postural Control Differences between Patients with Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction and Healthy People during Gait, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Martin include:

  • Martin Haeusler
  • Nicole D. S. Grunstra
  • Viktoria A. Krenn
  • Cinzia Fornai
  • Nicole M. Webb

The venues where Robert D. Martin has published multiple times include:

  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Nutrition Reviews
  • American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Best Publications

  • Primate origins and evolution

    R. D. Martin

  • Primate origins and evolution : a phylogenetic reconstruction

    R. D. Martin

  • Relative brain size and basal metabolic rate in terrestrial vertebrates.

    R. D. Martin

  • The Cambridge encyclopedia of human evolution

    Steve Jones;R. D. Martin;David R. Pilbeam

  • Review Lecture: Adaptive Radiation and Behaviour of the Malagasy Lemurs

    Martin Rd

  • Primate origins: plugging the gaps

    Robert D. Martin

  • Using the fossil record to estimate the age of the last common ancestor of extant primates.

    Simon Tavaré;Charles R. Marshall;Oliver Will;Christophe Soligo;Christophe Soligo

  • Endocranial volumes of primate species: scaling analyses using a comprehensive and reliable data set

    Karin Isler;E. Christopher Kirk;Joseph M.A. Miller;Gene A. Albrecht

  • Scaling of the Mammalian Brain: the Maternal Energy Hypothesis

    Robert D. Martin

  • Primates

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  • The evolution of human reproduction: A primatological perspective

    Robert D. Martin

  • The Study of Prosimian Behavior.

    D. E. Haines;G. A. Doyle;R. D. Martin

  • HUMAN BRAIN EVOLUTION IN AN ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT

    R. D. Martin

  • Gestation period, neonatal size and maternal investment in placental mammals

    R. D. Martin;A. M. MacLarnon

  • Reproduction and Ontogeny in tree‐shrews (Tupaia belangeri), with reference to their general behaviour and taxonomic relationships

    R. D. Martin

  • Evolution of Lorises and Lemurs

    Pierre Charles-Dominique;Robert D. Martin

  • A molecular approach to comparative phylogeography of extant Malagasy lemurs

    Jennifer Pastorini;Urs Thalmann;Robert D. Martin

  • Brain Size Allometry Ontogeny and Phylogeny

    R. D. Martin;Paul H. Harvey

  • Acacia gum and its use by bushbabies,Galago senegalensis (Primates: Lorisidae)

    S. K. Bearder;R. D. Martin

  • The Evolution of Behaviour

    Paul W. Sherman;C. Packer;Robert Axelrod;William D. Hamilton

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.@@@The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years.

    A. Mowle;Steve Jones;Robert Martin;David Pilbeam

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Tavaré
Simon Tavaré Columbia University
Robert M. May
Robert M. May University of Oxford
Christopher R. Pryce
Christopher R. Pryce University of Zurich
Charles R. Marshall
Charles R. Marshall University of California, Berkeley
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam Harvard University
Eckhard W. Heymann
Eckhard W. Heymann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Callum F. Ross
Callum F. Ross University of Chicago
Philip D. Gingerich
Philip D. Gingerich University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter W. Lucas
Peter W. Lucas George Washington University
Bernard Thierry
Bernard Thierry Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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