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Robert Foley is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, including anthropology, archeology, paleontology, molecular biology, and social psychology.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Pleistocene-Era hominins and archaeology, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, evolution and paleontology studies, dental development and anomalies, endodontics and root canal treatments, primate behavior and ecology, and archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Notable recent papers by Robert Foley include:

  • Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave (2020, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews)
  • The discovery of an in situ Neanderthal remain in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, West-Central Zagros Mountains, Kermanshah (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • The Distribution and Biogenic Origins of Zinc in the Mineralised Tooth Tissues of Modern and Fossil Hominoids: Implications for Life History, Diet and Taphonomy (2023, Biology)
  • Terrestrial habitats decouple the relationship between species and subspecies diversification in mammals (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • A process-based approach to hominin taxonomy provides new perspectives on hominin speciation (2022, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Foley include:

  • Marta Mìrazón Lahr
  • Keaghan J. Yaxley
  • P. Jofré
  • Payel Das
  • Jason J. Gellis

Robert Foley has published primarily in these venues:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

Best Publications

  • Developmental plasticity and human health.

    Patrick Bateson;David Barker;Timothy Clutton-Brock;Debal Deb

  • The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations

    P. A. Underhill;G. Passarino;A. A. Lin;P. Shen

  • An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Morten Rasmussen;Xiaosen Guo;Yong Wang;Kirk E. Lohmueller

  • A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Michael C. Westaway;Craig Muller;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

  • Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology

    Robert Foley

  • Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago.

    Simon Rasmussen;Morten Erik Allentoft;Kasper Nielsen;Ludovic Orlando

  • Towards a theory of modern human origins: geography, demography, and diversity in recent human evolution.

    Marta Mirazón Lahr;Robert A. Foley

  • Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans

    Robert Foley;Marta Mirazón Lahr

  • The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]

    Lars Rodseth;Richard W. Wrangham;Alisa M. Harrigan;Barbara B. Smuts

  • Multiple dispersals and modern human origins

    Marta Mirazon Lahr;Robert Foley

  • Comparative socioecology : the behavioural ecology of humans and other mammals

    V. Standen;Robert Foley

  • Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History

    Michael Dunn;Angela Terrill;Ger Reesink;Robert A. Foley

  • Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

    Andaine Seguin-Orlando;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Martin Sikora;Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas

  • The adaptive legacy of human evolution: A search for the environment of evolutionary adaptedness

    Robert Foley

  • Principles of Human Evolution

    Roger Lewin;Robert Foley

  • Ecology and energetics of encephalization in hominid evolution.

    R A Foley;P C Lee

  • Finite social space, evolutionary pathways, and reconstructing hominid behavior.

    RA Foley;PC Lee

  • Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

    Martin Sikora;Andaine Seguin-Orlando;Vitor Martins Conde e Sousa;Vitor Martins Conde e Sousa;Vitor Martins Conde e Sousa;Anders Albrechtsen

  • The ecology of social transitions in human evolution

    Robert Foley;Clive Gamble

  • On stony ground: Lithic technology, human evolution, and the emergence of culture

    Robert Foley;Marta Mirazón Lahr

Frequent Co-Authors

Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando Paul Sabatier University
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Vitor C. Sousa
Vitor C. Sousa University of Lisbon
David M. Lambert
David M. Lambert Griffith University
Søren Brunak
Søren Brunak University of Copenhagen
Simon Rasmussen
Simon Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood Australian National University
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier University of Bern

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